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The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2008 OX2 will make a close pass (55.2 lunar distances, 0.1418 AU), travelling at 14.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th May, 2013 @ 23:54 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:
2008 OX2                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0320 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 186.34382              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.91908022     Peri.  251.80696     -0.37297913     -0.92481513
a   1.0476923      Node   220.34747     +0.88898295     -0.33309090
e   0.6019824      Incl.    6.63957     +0.26569888     -0.18375918
P   1.07           H   20.1           G   0.15           U   5

MPEC 2009 - O44

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