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The 75 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2013 BP18 made a close pass (12.0 lunar distances, 0.0309 AU), travelling at 12.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th January, 2013 @ 23:33 UT ±00:01. 

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).



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Orbital elements:
2013 BP18                                                Earth MOID = 0.0119 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 303.69218              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.71058518     Peri.  147.08136     +0.11235152     -0.94078277
a   1.2437276      Node   294.64239     +0.81855907     +0.27011112
e   0.2235343      Incl.   20.60355     +0.56332777     -0.20486036
P   1.39           H   22.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2013 - B48

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