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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2013 KA made a close pass (2.1 lunar distances, 0.0053 AU), travelling at 5.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th May, 2013 @ 12:39 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 KA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0037 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M 347.26709              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.57294094     Peri.  353.46991     -0.66333706     +0.74468549
a   1.4356971      Node   234.94628     -0.68243552     -0.64238785
e   0.2943496      Incl.    5.16333     -0.30702722     -0.18105624
P   1.72           H   28.0           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2013 - K11

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