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The 75 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2012 DW30 will make a close pass (45.9 lunar distances, 0.1180 AU), travelling at 5.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th March, 2012 @ 08:22 UT ±05:46.

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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 DW30                                                Earth MOID = 0.1185 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 357.33441              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28754741     Peri.  241.71270     -0.99801256     +0.04562306
a   2.2733331      Node   300.87228     -0.02310828     -0.90671566
e   0.5136491      Incl.    2.90291     -0.05862545     -0.41926751
P   3.43           H   22.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - D66



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