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Asteroid 2008 WZ13
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The 500 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2008 WZ13 will make a close pass (57.2 lunar distances, 0.1470 AU), travelling at 10.50 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st February, 2012 @ 06:13 UT ±03:49.

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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 660-meter asteroid 2008 WZ13 was discovered on 20 November by the Mount Lemmon Survey.
Orbital elements:
2008 WZ13 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0264 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC
M 253.54152 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.46446789 Peri. 152.15493 -0.90342815 +0.41137887
a 1.6513238 Node 52.65047 -0.41616174 -0.77368749
e 0.4300520 Incl. 8.73819 -0.10308723 -0.48184551
P 2.12 H 18.4 G 0.15 U 9

MPEC 2008-W30 
Object: 2008WZ13  

date MJD sigma sigimp dist ± width stretch p_RE exp. en. PS
YYYY/MM (RE) (RE) RE/sig MT
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2037/05/12.208 65190.208 -1.574 0.355 11.34 ± 28.060 2.18E+04 4.48E-07 4.15E-03 -3.11
2051/05/12.307 70303.307 -1.543 1.005 29.78 ± 28.262 1.53E+05 4.77E-08 4.43E-04 -4.25
2051/05/12.754 70303.754 -1.398 0.077 3.57 ± 28.298 2.64E+04 4.79E-07 4.53E-03 -3.24
2062/05/10.492 74319.492 -2.318 3.642 101.99 ± 27.618 2.39E+05 4.99E-11 4.25E-07 -7.36
2062/05/11.538 74320.538 -1.954 1.436 41.00 ± 27.600 4.41E+04 5.79E-08 5.13E-04 -4.28
2062/05/12.571 74321.571 -1.592 0.615 19.03 ± 28.695 8.14E+05 7.39E-09 6.83E-05 -5.16


Based on 50 optical observations (of which 0 are rejected as outliers)
from 2008/11/20.276 to 2008/12/02.403.

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