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The 23 - 51 metre wide asteroid 2011 WR2 will make a close pass (19.5 lunar distances, 0.0502 AU), travelling at 12.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th November, 2011 @ 12:51 UT ±00:02.

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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 WR2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0395 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 221.83780              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.87462429     Peri.  292.63334     -0.95358058     -0.24509045
a   1.0829000      Node   233.61672     +0.28585806     -0.91945225
e   0.3936574      Incl.   12.55266     -0.09470606     -0.30747069
P   1.13           H   25.3           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - W17



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