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RE: Asteroid 2012 UW68
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The 28 - 62 metre wide asteroid 2012 UW68 will make a close pass (18.5 lunar distances, 0.0476 AU), travelling at 2.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th January, 2013 @ 17:44 UT ±00:05. 

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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 UW68                                                Earth MOID = 0.0251 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 270.22919              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.81424614     Peri.  101.67396     -0.47569560     -0.87952289
a   1.1357923      Node    16.74765     +0.78937170     -0.43306007
e   0.1551824      Incl.    2.46166     +0.38807991     -0.19722692
P   1.21           H   25.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - U74



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