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Asteroid 2014 AF16
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The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2014 AF16 made a close pass (6.2 lunar distances, 0.0160 AU), travelling at 9.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th January 2014 @ 05:10 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).

Orbital elements:
2014 AF16                                                Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU
Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5                  MPC
M 323.04901              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.40806925     Peri.  213.76238     -0.78457979     -0.61791341
a   1.8001698      Node   287.99023     +0.58009436     -0.70241033
e   0.4843306      Incl.    3.08355     +0.21891799     -0.35327431
P   2.42           H   25.0           G   0.15           U   5

MPEC 2014 - A33

Key to Orbital elements



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