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The 78 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2011 WC made a close pass (60.3 lunar distances, 0.1550 AU), travelling at 5.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th November, 2011 @ 21:26 UT ±2 days 12:41.

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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 WC                                                  Earth MOID = 0.1379 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 250.29961              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.73777652     Peri.  244.92295     -0.35057333     -0.92911247
a   1.2129777      Node   226.13614     +0.90728660     -0.30577530
e   0.1092587      Incl.    9.39379     +0.23222697     -0.20796990
P   1.34           H   22.5           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - W06



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