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RE: Asteroid 2011 KR12

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The 140 - 310 metre wide asteroid 2011 KR12 will make a close pass (51.3 lunar distances, 0.1318 AU), travelling at 10.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th June, 2012 @ 02:07 UT ±00:40.

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 KR12                                                Earth MOID = 0.1231 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 357.83762              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.96918746     Peri.    0.65308     +0.92801828     -0.36942708
a   1.0112632      Node    21.22455     +0.34118969     +0.79109417
e   0.3859169      Incl.    7.62201     +0.14957162     +0.48753835
P   1.02           H   21.3           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - K35

The 140 - 320 metre wide asteroid 2011 KR12 will make a close pass (48.3 lunar distances, 0.1242 AU), travelling at 12.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June, 2011 @ 14:43 UT ±01:08.

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