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The 880 - 2000 metre wide asteroid 2003 QQ47 will make a close pass (49.9 lunar distances, 0.1283 AU), travelling at 32.41 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March 2014 @ 12:36 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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Asteroid (143649) 2003 QQ47 (also written 2003 QQ47) is an asteroid which became briefly notable upon its discovery in late August 2003 when media outlets played up a very preliminary report that it had a 1 in 250,000 chance of impacting into Earth on March 21, 2014.
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