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The 44 - 99 metre wide asteroid 2011 PT will make a close pass (17.7 lunar distances, 0.0454 AU) travelling at 2.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd October 2014 @ 22:53 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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The 37 - 83 metre wide asteroid 2011 PT will make a close pass (21.6 lunar distances, 0.0554 AU), travelling at 3.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th September, 2011 @ 08:30 UT ±1 day 04:03.

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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 PT                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0456 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 337.15103              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.65380093     Peri.  296.61869     +0.98585959     -0.16354011
a   1.3147374      Node    72.81194     +0.16411327     +0.89817552
e   0.2161079      Incl.    2.19226     +0.03387770     +0.40808744
P   1.51           H   24.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - P15



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