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The 41 - 93 metre wide asteroid 2013 AS72 made a close pass (17.1 lunar distances, 0.0440 AU), travelling at 8.65 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th January, 2013 @ 07:50 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 AS72                                                Earth MOID = 0.0287 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 324.50997              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.31116923     Peri.    6.63190     -0.57451590     -0.80734040
a   2.1567755      Node   118.51780     +0.74373709     -0.58362063
e   0.5317795      Incl.    8.81549     +0.34174057     -0.08711165
P   3.17           H   24.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2013 - A91

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