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Brorsen's Comet
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5D/Brorsen (also known as Brorsen's Comet or Comet Brorsen) was a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered February 26, 1846, by the Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen.
The comet is currently considered lost
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The identification of asteroid 1996 SK with the extinct nucleus of comet 5D/Brorsen

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The 1000 - 2200 metre wide asteroid 1996 SK will make a close pass (67.2 lunar distances, 0.1726 AU), travelling at 19.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th April, 2012 @ 20:02 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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