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Orbital elements:
2012 BX1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0136 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  95.66926              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.80362561     Peri.  276.33677     +0.80806086     -0.55441218
a   1.1457773      Node   117.50574     +0.58897452     +0.75337053
e   0.3047869      Incl.   12.97591     +0.01211050     +0.35363821
P   1.23           H   24.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - B17

The 30 - 66 metre wide asteroid 2012 BX1 made a close pass (8.1 lunar distances, 0.0207 AU), travelling at 10.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th January, 2012 @ 00:53 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).