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RE: Asteroid 2012 FK15

Blobrana · L

The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2012 FK15 will make a close pass (31.9 lunar distances, 0.0819 AU), travelling at 12.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd March, 2013 @ 02:52 UT ±00:32.

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

Blobrana · L

The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2012 FK15 made a close pass (19.2 lunar distances, 0.0493 AU), travelling at 12.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st March, 2012 @ 19:34 UT ±00:10.

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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:
2012 FK15                                                Earth MOID = 0.0489 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 209.86012              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.99806141     Peri.  327.19091     +0.84554873     +0.53388104
a   0.9916640      Node     0.59386     -0.35547553     +0.56894794
e   0.0661941      Incl.   24.42831     -0.39835222     +0.62551521
P   0.99           H   26.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - F58