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Orbital elements:
2011 WP69                                                Earth MOID = 0.1062 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 319.68397              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.44216814     Peri.  341.04884     +0.43770243     -0.86740841
a   1.7063879      Node    82.39888     +0.85269900     +0.31697363
e   0.3660792      Incl.   13.81466     +0.28516837     +0.38357576
P   2.23           H   23.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - W79

The 67 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2011 WP69 will make a close pass (41.8 lunar distances, 0.1074 AU), travelling at 8.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th December, 2011 @ 06:20 UT ±08:43.

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