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Kilometre-wide asteroid discovered by Russia-run observatory

A New Mexico observatory operated by the Russian government discovers an asteroid a fifth the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs millions of years ago. But have no fear, this one is nowhere near earth, but it's called a near-Earth asteroid because it shares a similar orbit around the sun as the earth does. VoR's Ric Young talked about the stellar body with Dmitry Weibe, Head of the Department of Physics and Evolution of the Stars at the Institute of Astronomy at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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 Orbital elements:

2013 TB80                                                Earth MOID = 0.3018 AU
Epoch 2013 Sept. 25.0 TT = JDT 2456560.5                MPC
M 340.40861              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.20658534     Peri.   17.98496     +0.23227728     -0.95407293
a   2.8340209      Node    58.96817     +0.86307681     +0.11248544
e   0.5480655      Incl.   12.75525     +0.44849268     +0.27765423
P   4.77           H   17.4           G   0.15
From 36 observations 2013 Oct. 9-10.

MPEC 2013 - T86

Key to Orbital elements

Ed ~ 1 - 2 km wide



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