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RE: Asteroid 2011 PU1

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The 27 - 59 metre wide asteroid 2011 PU1 made a close pass (7.9 lunar distances, 0.0204 AU), travelling at 5.02 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th July 2014 @ 19:17 UT ±09:33.

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

Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     Mag
2014 07 15    05 29 56.6 -11 11 44   0.02232 1.0008    45.1   134.0    22.9
2014 07 16    05 01 55.1 -08 40 55   0.02158 1.0024    49.1   129.9    22.4
2014 07 17    04 32 57.3 -05 53 16   0.02123 1.0041    54.2   124.8    21.9
2014 07 18    04 03 56.6 -02 56 41   0.02126 1.0058    59.9   119.0    21.4
2014 07 19    03 35 46.2 -00 00 31   0.02167 1.0076    66.0   112.9    21.0
2014 07 20    03 09 10.4 +02 46 42   0.02245 1.0095    72.0   106.8    20.8
2014 07 21    02 44 38.6 +05 18 54   0.02354 1.0114    77.8   100.9    20.6
2014 07 22    02 22 24.6 +07 33 03   0.02491 1.0134    83.2    95.4    20.4
2014 07 23    02 02 30.0 +09 28 41   0.02651 1.0154    88.1    90.4    20.3
2014 07 24    01 44 47.5 +11 06 55   0.02830 1.0175    92.5    85.9    20.3
2014 07 25    01 29 05.6 +12 29 42   0.03024 1.0197    96.6    81.7    20.3
2014 07 26    01 15 10.8 +13 39 12   0.03231 1.0219   100.2    78.0    20.3
2014 07 27    01 02 49.6 +14 37 30   0.03448 1.0242   103.5    74.6    20.3
2014 07 28    00 51 49.4 +15 26 24   0.03673 1.0265   106.5    71.5    20.4
2014 07 29    00 41 59.1 +16 07 29   0.03906 1.0289   109.3    68.7    20.4
2014 07 30    00 33 09.0 +16 42 02   0.04144 1.0314   111.8    66.1    20.5
2014 07 31    00 25 10.6 +17 11 05   0.04387 1.0339   114.2    63.6    20.5

Blobrana · L

Orbital elements:
2011 PU1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M  40.93981              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.65510797     Peri.  326.41947     -0.01484592     +0.99785249
a   1.3129881      Node   302.65318     -0.89990380     -0.04114510
e   0.2509066      Incl.    4.34559     -0.43583569     +0.05096552
P   1.50           H   25.2           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - P36

The 27 - 59 metre wide asteroid 2011 PU1 made a close pass (0.0022 AU), travelling at 5.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th July, 2011 @ 20:36 UT ±10:23.

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