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The 25 - 57 metre wide asteroid 2008 XB2 will make a close pass (54.6 lunar distances, 0.1404 AU), travelling at 15.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th December, 2013 @ 16:54 UT ±1 day 15:57. 

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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 47metre wide asteroid 2008 XB2 will pass 5.8 lunar distances from the Earth-moon system on the 13th December, 2008.

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Orbital elements:
2008 XB2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0052 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 302.23635              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.79682236     Peri.  259.29332     -0.98188999     -0.18468828
a   1.1522898      Node   270.05407     +0.18610157     -0.89855022
e   0.3725640      Incl.    2.41958     +0.03547183     -0.39811776
P   1.24           H   24.5           G   0.15           U   9
MPEC 2008 -X44

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