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Asteroid 2014 BT8

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The 27 - 59 metre wide asteroid 2014 BT8 will make a close pass (48.3 lunar distances, 0.1242 AU) travelling at 6.66 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January 2015 @ 03:31 UT ±00:10.

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

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The 27 - 61 metre wide asteroid 2014 BT8 made a close pass (4.3 lunar distances, 0.0111 AU), travelling at 7.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January, 2014 @ 05:39 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 BT8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0006 AU
Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5                  MPC
M   6.47423              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.01444346     Peri.  261.77874     +0.89595429     -0.40408862
a   0.9809589      Node   121.87406     +0.44211055     +0.85110240
e   0.0939713      Incl.   12.53657     -0.04247554     +0.33516726
P   0.97           H   24.9           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2014 - B40