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Asteroid 2008 KZ5
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The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2008 KZ5 will make a close pass (35.1 lunar distances, 0.0903 AU), travelling at 8.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th September, 2013 @ 05:45 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:
2008 KZ5                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0037 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M 304.78321              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39496681     Peri.  194.15499     +0.91819966     +0.38616543
a   1.8397649      Node   142.73902     -0.34778052     +0.89253344
e   0.4527440      Incl.    8.37999     -0.18962618     +0.23293845
P   2.50           H   20.0           G   0.15           U   1

MPEC 2013 - G74

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