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The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 2013 NP8 will make a close pass (55.1 lunar distances, 0.1416 AU), travelling at 8.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st July, 2013 @ 09:26 UT ±00:05. 

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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 NP8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1263 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M 312.78038              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.38660706     Peri.  251.45718     +0.87223669     +0.46933432
a   1.8661915      Node    80.35248     -0.37936436     +0.82678505
e   0.4360443      Incl.    8.02206     -0.30868406     +0.31008349
P   2.55           H   21.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2013 - N29

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