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The 5 - 10 metre wide asteroid 2014 RA made a close pass (0.1 lunar distances, 0.0004 AU), travelling at 13.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st August 2014 @ 23:48 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:
2014 RA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5                  MPC
M  83.29228              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.55754205     Peri.  108.93147     -0.05292770     +0.99838872
a   1.4620121      Node   158.00423     -0.93552291     -0.04240779
e   0.4567820      Incl.    3.13150     -0.34927862     -0.03770331
P   1.77           H   28.8           G   0.15           U   5

MPEC 2014 - R14



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