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Orbital elements:
2012 DX43                                                Earth MOID = 0.1501 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M   7.76895              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.34289647     Peri.  177.18345     -0.90559712     -0.42037654
a   2.0215945      Node   337.69246     +0.38617962     -0.76227906
e   0.4362191      Incl.    8.54021     +0.17538288     -0.49215261
P   2.87           H   24.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - D97

The 44 - 99 metre wide asteroid 2012 DX43 made a close pass (64.8 lunar distances, 0.1665 AU), travelling at 6.00 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th February, 2012 @ 13:11 UT ±1 day 10:20.

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