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RE: Asteroid 2011 EO40

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Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor

A new study shows how a 200-metre-wide cluster of rocks, first spotted by scientists in 2011, could have spawned the Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over Russia earlier this year.
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Orbital elements:
2011 EO40                                                Earth MOID = 0.0512 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 28.0 TT = JDT 2455620.5                 MPC
M  21.15940              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.33103752     Peri.  357.80774     +0.39041207     -0.91925294
a   2.0695912      Node    69.20886     +0.84549105     +0.33628795
e   0.6679935      Incl.    3.09783     +0.36431209     +0.20465691
P   2.98           H   21.6           G   0.15
From 11 observations 2011 Mar. 10.

MPEC 2011 - E59