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RE: Asteroid 2012 XB
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The 19 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2012 XB made a close pass (18.9 lunar distances, 0.0485 AU), travelling at 6.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th November, 2012 @ 13:05 UT ±00:31. 

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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 XB                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0490 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 324.53870              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.75135314     Peri.  163.81081     +0.58261491     -0.79155214
a   1.1983214      Node   250.19503     +0.72225764     +0.60828833
e   0.1401226      Incl.   11.30301     +0.37269795     +0.05857072
P   1.31           H   25.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - X07



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