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RE: Asteroid 2012 VC5
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The 40 - 89 metre wide asteroid 2012 VC5 made a close pass (32.9 lunar distances, 0.0846 AU), travelling at 8.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th November, 2012 @ 13:59 UT ±00:19. 

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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 VC5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0850 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 351.10898              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.21049030     Peri.  189.70157     +0.64788334     -0.75490823
a   2.7988610      Node   220.01891     +0.70906434     +0.64650027
e   0.6165653      Incl.    9.10774     +0.27834321     +0.11023147
P   4.68           H   24.2           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - V12



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