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Orbital elements:
1998 RO1
Epoch 1998 Sept. 4.0 TT = JDT 2451060.5                 Williams
M 254.38706              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.99784956     Peri.  151.12512     -0.80418120     -0.59185120
a   0.9918043      Node   351.89302     +0.44276566     -0.53496639
e   0.7223360      Incl.   22.87389     +0.39654908     -0.60292879
P   0.99           H   18.0           G   0.15
From 23 observations 1998 Sept. 14-17.

MPEC 1998 - S04

The 620 metre wide asteroid 1998 RO1 was discovered by the LINEAR Program, (Lincoln Laboratory ETS) on the 14th September 1998.
The asteroid was discovered to be a binary from lightcurve observations taken by the Ondrejov Observatory and University of Western Ontario by P. Pravec et al on the 13-28 September 2002.

The asteroid is an Earth coorbital object, or quasi-satellite.

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