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Asteroid (66063) 1998 RO1
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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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