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The 17 - 38 metre wide asteroid 2012 DZ made a close pass (2.6 lunar distances, 0.0064 AU), travelling at 16.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd February, 2012 @ 23:03 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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Orbital elements:
2012 DZ                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 353.75924              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.29791992     Peri.  251.00460     -0.78329799     +0.62152947
a   2.2202558      Node   327.42010     -0.56159700     -0.71581687
e   0.6544676      Incl.    1.28301     -0.26655781     -0.31828813
P   3.31           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - D25

The 17 - 38 metre wide asteroid 2012 DZ will make a close pass (2.6 lunar distances, 0.0066AU), travelling at 16.30 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd February, 2012 @ 23:58 UT ±04:27.

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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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