Confirmed Asteroid “2011-SE58″

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That’s – um – 0.62 Moon Units MT @lowflyingrocks 2011 SE58, ~8-18m diameter, passed Earth at 16km/s, missing by ~239,000 km. ht @timoreilly

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Orbital elements:
2011 SE58                                                Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 332.30289              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.36305169     Peri.   68.90135     +0.25851067     -0.96600653
a   1.9460638      Node     6.11788     +0.87954466     +0.23455819
e   0.6190404      Incl.    1.02199     +0.39946642     +0.10869147
P   2.71           H   27.6           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2011 – S62

The 8 – 18 metre wide asteroid 2011 SE58 will make a close pass (0.6 lunar distances, 0.0016 AU), travelling at 15.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th September, 2011 @ 02:45 UT ±00:04.

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2011%20SE58&orb=1

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