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The 100 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2012 DO8 will make a close pass (68.7 Lunar distances, 0.1766 AU), travelling at 7.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th March, 2012 @ 11:46 UT ± 00:03. 

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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 DO8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1293 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 191.21624              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.05420257     Peri.  359.53929     +0.97487138     +0.22046393
a   0.9561367      Node   347.58408     -0.20390769     +0.82532876
e   0.2320402      Incl.    8.54852     -0.08970755     +0.51983467
P   0.93           H   22.1           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - D40

The 100 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2012 DO8 will make a close pass (68.7 Lunar distances, 0.1766 AU), travelling at 7.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th March, 2012 @ 04:17 UT ±2 days 08:05.

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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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