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The 160 - 360 metre wide asteroid 2008 SW11 will make a close pass (73.3 lunar distances, 0.1885 AU), travelling at 8.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th August 2014 @ 05:48 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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The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2008 SW11 will make a close pass (73.2 lunar distances, 0.1881 AU), travelling at 17.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd February, 2013 @ 14:58 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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The 180 - 400 metre asteroid 2008 SW11 (H=21.1) was discovered by the spacewatch - Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch on the 25th September, 2008.
The preliminary orbital elements indicate that will make a flyby of the Earth Moon system at 07:11 UT, 1st April, 2009, with a minimum distance of  0.0057613 AU.  (Palermo Scale > -2)

MPEC 2008-S66



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