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The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2011 GZ2 will make a close pass (2.7 lunar distances, 0.0069 AU), travelling at 15.57 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th April, 2011 @ 00:14 UT ±00:14.

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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 GZ2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0014 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 319.04303              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39178428     Peri.  247.33816     -0.07011621     +0.99675474
a   1.8497145      Node    18.77045     -0.86418120     -0.04089400
e   0.5835310      Incl.    7.05901     -0.49827158     -0.06933736
P   2.52           H   26.1           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - G22



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