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The 11 - 25 metre wide asteroid 2011 MX made a close pass (2.5 lunar distances, 0.0064 AU), travelling at 12.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th June, 2011 @ 04:48 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 MX                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0014 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M  67.24829              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.57885995     Peri.  297.25164     -0.87883666     +0.41711975
a   1.4258934      Node   268.18929     -0.31287909     -0.87036366
e   0.3952954      Incl.   13.40048     -0.36021215     -0.26168341
P   1.70           H   26.9           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - M36



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