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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2013 OU3


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RE: Asteroid 2013 OU3
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The 87 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2013 OU3 will make a close pass (70.4 lunar distances, 0.1808 AU), travelling at 6.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th August, 2013 @ 23:41 UT ±00:03. 

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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 OU3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1732 AU
Epoch 2013 July 7.0 TT = JDT 2456480.5                  MPC
M 347.93506              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25560735     Peri.  172.45074     +0.89532987     +0.44272073
a   2.4589733      Node   161.03785     -0.41609904     +0.87048068
e   0.5190195      Incl.    8.63982     -0.15888996     +0.21508542
P   3.86           H   22.8           G   0.15
From 7 observations 2013 July 17-18.

MPEC 2013 - O50

Key to Orbital elements



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