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The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2013 AP72 made a close pass (1.9 lunar distances, 0.0049 AU), travelling at 8.72 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th January, 2013 @ 13:35 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:
2013 AP72                                                Earth MOID = 0.0034 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 325.43145              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27905601     Peri.  202.78349     -0.72207055     -0.69096659
a   2.3192192      Node   293.46283     +0.64035915     -0.64874986
e   0.5833114      Incl.    2.14543     +0.26182872     -0.31888680
P   3.53           H   26.6           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2013 - A89

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