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Orbital elements:
2012 DY13                                                Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  40.94245              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.55902957     Peri.  269.27161     +0.49233194     -0.87008165
a   1.4594174      Node   151.19565     +0.81695466     +0.45248347
e   0.5739292      Incl.    2.83318     +0.30032374     +0.19549073
P   1.76           H   27.9           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - D47

The 7 - 15 metre wide asteroid 2012 DY13 made a close pass (0.3 lunar distances, 0.0007 AU), travelling at 17.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th February, 2012 @ 22:43 UT ±00:02.

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