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The 97 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2012 YF8 will make a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0792 AU), travelling at 19.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th January, 2013 @ 12:26 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 YF8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0469 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 299.97621              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.38421674     Peri.  143.76036     -0.94600551     +0.31948094
a   1.8739235      Node    54.96081     -0.31092186     -0.84650426
e   0.6319106      Incl.    3.83928     -0.09165792     -0.42586673
P   2.57           H   22.1           G   0.15           U   7


MPEC 2013 - A52

Key to Orbital Elements



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