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The 5 - 12 metre wide asteroid 2011 AN52 made a close pass (0.8 lunar distances, 0.0021 AU), travelling at 15.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th January, 2011 @ 23:19 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:
2011 AN52                                                Earth MOID = 0.0021 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 345.25649              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.52390634     Peri.   84.91409     -0.94741762     +0.31854174
a   1.5239368      Node   113.65795     -0.30521015     -0.87085981
e   0.5481662      Incl.    1.90901     -0.09615937     -0.37434522
P   1.88           H   28.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - A71

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