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The 70 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2005 VN made a close pass (61.2 lunar distances, 0.1572 AU) travelling at 16.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th November 2014 @ 04:44 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:
2005 VN                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0083 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 345.99176              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.32761846     Peri.  141.93162     +0.99284159     -0.01480947
a   2.0839653      Node   219.42034     -0.01645091     +0.96586994
e   0.5535349      Incl.   10.75673     +0.11830025     +0.25860382
P   3.01           H   22.9           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2011 - W49



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The (H= 22.9) 72 m - 160 m wide asteroid 2005 VN is predicted to make a flyby (0.0104 AU, 4.1 LD) of the Earth Moon system on the 29th October, 2008.
The Apollo asteroid was discovered by LINEAR - Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico, on the 2nd November 2005.

MPEC 2005-V35

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