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RE: Asteroid 2014 HQ124

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The 320 metre wide asteroid 2014 HQ124 will make a close pass (3.3 lunar distances, 0.0084 AU), travelling at 14.05 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th June 2014 @ 05:56 UT ±00:01.

The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

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Asteroid Discovered by NASA to Pass Earth Safely

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.
Designated 2014 HQ124, the asteroid was discovered April 23, 2014, by NASA's NEOWISE mission, a space telescope adapted for scouting the skies for asteroids and comets.
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Orbital elements:
2014 HQ124                                          PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0083 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5                  MPC
M 214.20493              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.25506990     Peri.  144.67102     +0.68168021     -0.59623853
a   0.8511853      Node   257.79803     +0.53078540     +0.80190199
e   0.2574648      Incl.   25.71171     +0.50356623     -0.03811587
P   0.79           H   18.6           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2014 - H67