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RE: Asteroid 2012 WE33
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The 40 - 90 metre wide asteroid 2012 WE33 made a close pass (28.2 lunar distances, 0.0725 AU), travelling at 13.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd December, 2012 @ 05:53 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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Orbital elements:
2012 WE33                                                Earth MOID = 0.0724 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 294.39548              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.67597431     Peri.   36.99098     -0.21635853     -0.89606953
a   1.2858271      Node    68.50972     +0.76602382     -0.40195511
e   0.2036898      Incl.   24.61883     +0.60530695     +0.18839186
P   1.46           H   24.1           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - X05



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