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The 15 - 34 metre wide asteroid 2011 WQ2 made a close pass (7.6 lunar distances, 0.0195 AU), travelling at 9.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th November, 2011 @ 23:32 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 WQ2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0093 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 342.98471              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27109333     Peri.  336.90773     +0.86509310     -0.49874720
a   2.3644139      Node    53.11851     +0.47002926     +0.76873112
e   0.5848339      Incl.    3.83706     +0.17517543     +0.40037943
P   3.64           H   26.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - W15



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