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Asteroid to make 'close' pass to Earth on Monday

Astronomers are hoping to get a close look at an asteroid Monday as it makes a relatively close pass to Earth.
The space rock, known as 2001 AV43, will approach within 650,000 miles, or 2.7 times the distance from the Earth to the moon. That is considered an eyelash width in cosmic terms.
The rapidly spinning asteroid, discovered on Jan. 5, 2001, by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, is flying by at a relative velocity of 8,000 mph and has an estimated diameter of between 100 and 230 feet.
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The 32 - 71 metre wide asteroid 2001 AV43 will make a close pass (3.0 lunar distances, 0.0076 AU), travelling at 3.60 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th November, 2013 @ 21:35 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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