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The 15 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2011 FT9 made a close pass (7.5 lunar distances, 0.0194 AU), travelling at 6.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st April, 2011 @ 03:25 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 FT9                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0088 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 322.84196              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.52123378     Peri.  184.91752     -0.83237638     +0.55381908
a   1.5291415      Node    28.74285     -0.50698985     -0.74573386
e   0.3539338      Incl.    2.48288     -0.22385453     -0.37035851
P   1.89           H   26.2           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - F41



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