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RE: Asteroid 2012 VU76

Blobrana · L

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2012 VU76 will make a close pass (71.0 lunar distances, 0.1824 AU), travelling at 3.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th July 2014 @ 19:06 UT ±00:01.

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 VU76                                                Earth MOID = 0.0038 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5                  MPC
M  98.61142              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.95867062     Peri.   88.59181     -0.77338569     -0.62700715
a   1.0186456      Node    52.56856     +0.52470927     -0.71587664
e   0.1282388      Incl.    6.75985     +0.35574534     -0.30721765
P   1.03           H   25.7           G   0.15           U   3

MPEC 2014 - N18

Blobrana · L

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2012 VU76 will make a close pass (56.1 lunar distances, 0.1441 AU), travelling at 3.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th January, 2014 @ 08:54 UT ±16:09.

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

Blobrana · L

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2012 VU76 will make a close pass (56.8 lunar distances, 0.1461 AU), travelling at 3.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th October 2013 @ 23:05 UT ±07:37.

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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 VU76                                                Earth MOID = 0.0022 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 244.80487              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.95320358     Peri.   87.11434     -0.75936665     -0.64384443
a   1.0225368      Node    52.78560     +0.54023565     -0.70435856
e   0.1284132      Incl.    6.77507     +0.36263994     -0.29890360
P   1.03           H   25.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - V91

The 19 - 42 metre wide asteroid 2012 VU76 will make a close pass (8.1 lunar distances, 0.0207 AU), travelling at 5.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th November, 2012 @ 16:56 UT ±00:13.

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