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RE: Asteroid 2011 AC3

Blobrana · L

The 89 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2011 AC3 will make a close pass (29.8 lunar distances, 0.0765 AU), travelling at 20.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th January, 2012 @ 12:03 UT ±03:32.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Blobrana · L

The 75 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2011 AC3 will make a close pass (26.1 lunar distances, 0.0671 AU), travelling at 17.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January, 2011 @ 16:50 UT ±00:51.

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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:
2011 AC3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0465 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 320.78879              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.01061256     Peri.  307.98036     -0.54286946     +0.74830172
a   0.9834363      Node   284.81806     -0.59215644     -0.66296225
e   0.4953848      Incl.   23.22520     -0.59551952     -0.02292584
P   0.98           H   22.7           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - A15