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MPEC 2010-E60 : 2010 EK12

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M.P.E.C. 2010-E60                                Issued 2010 Mar. 12, 21:04 UT

     The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual
         minor planets and routine data on comets.  They are published
   on behalf of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union by the
          Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
                          Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

             Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network

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       URL http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/mpc.html  ISSN 1523-6714

                                   2010 EK12

                           Revision to MPEC 2010-E32

Additional Observations:
     K10E12K  C2000 07 29.31841 20 42 37.65 -13 58 08.2          18.4 R EE060699
     K10E12K  C2000 07 29.32923 20 42 36.65 -13 58 03.3                 EE060699
     K10E12K  C2000 07 29.34006 20 42 35.56 -13 58 00.9                 EE060699
     K10E12K  C2000 07 29.35089 20 42 34.49 -13 57 56.3                 EE060699
     K10E12K  C2002 12 06.37792008 13 52.833+27 57 36.88         21.37V EE060645
     K10E12K  C2002 12 06.38139208 13 52.769+27 57 36.48         22.19  EE060645

Observer details:
645 Apache Point--Sloan Digital Sky Survey.  Measurers Z. Ivezic, M. Juric,
    R. Lupton, S. Tabachnik, T. Quinn.  2.5-m SDSS Telescope + SDSS camera.
699 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS.  Observer W. D. Ferris.  Measurer B. W. Koehn.
    0.59-m LONEOS Schmidt + CCD.

Orbital elements:
2010 EK12                                                Earth MOID = 0.4119 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 326.84005              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.29059696     Peri.  274.31633     -0.79138036     +0.57005392
a   2.2574008      Node   300.58895     -0.40768607     -0.76128094
e   0.4252069      Incl.   14.86258     -0.45553177     -0.30901432
P   3.39           H   17.9           G   0.15           U   2
Residuals in seconds of arc
000729 699  0.5-  1.0+    100308 E12  0.1+  0.0     100309 E12  0.0   0.0
000729 699  0.1+  2.0+    100308 E12  0.3-  0.0     100309 D90  0.2-  0.0
000729 699  0.7-  0.4+    100308 E12  0.0   0.3+    100309 D90  0.1-  0.0
000729 699  1.2-  1.1+    100309 E16  0.4+  0.2+    100309 D90  0.1-  0.2+
021206 645  0.0   0.1+    100309 E16  0.3+  0.1+    100309 D90  0.5-  0.2-
021206 645  0.0   0.1+    100309 E16  0.2+  0.0     100309 D90  0.1-  0.5-
100119 E12  0.2+  0.2-    100309 E12  0.1-  0.1-    100312 474  0.3+  0.0
100119 E12  0.8+  0.3+    100309 E16  0.0   0.2+    100312 474  0.1+  0.1-
100119 E12  0.5+  0.3+    100309 E12  0.1+  0.1-    100312 474  0.5+  0.4+
100119 E12  0.6+  1.0+    100309 E12  0.1-  0.0

Ephemeris:
2010 EK12                a,e,i = 2.26, 0.43, 15                  q = 1.2975
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2010 03 05    11 49.72   -37 02.1    0.508    1.400   135.3    29.9    18.5
2010 03 15    11 43.37   -43 03.1    0.471    1.367   134.6    31.2    18.3
2010 03 25    11 34.37   -48 11.2    0.446    1.340   132.6    33.2    18.2
2010 04 04    11 25.37   -52 06.1    0.430    1.319   130.1    35.4    18.1
2010 04 14    11 20.01   -54 41.2    0.421    1.305   127.9    37.3    18.1
2010 04 24    11 22.21   -56 02.0    0.418    1.298   126.5    38.5    18.1
2010 05 04    11 34.41   -56 18.8    0.418    1.299   126.1    38.8    18.1
2010 05 14    11 56.78   -55 35.7    0.422    1.307   126.6    38.4    18.1
2010 05 24    12 27.62   -53 53.3    0.432    1.322   127.8    37.3    18.2
2010 06 03    13 03.47   -51 14.4    0.451    1.344   129.0    35.9    18.3
2010 06 13    13 40.62   -47 48.9    0.480    1.372   129.6    34.7    18.4
2010 06 23    14 16.51   -43 57.8    0.522    1.406   129.3    34.0    18.6
2010 07 03    14 49.78   -40 04.6    0.578    1.444   127.6    33.9    18.9
2010 07 13    15 20.15   -36 27.5    0.649    1.486   124.9    34.1    19.2
2010 07 23    15 48.02   -33 17.1    0.734    1.532   121.3    34.5    19.6
2010 08 02    16 13.82   -30 35.8    0.833    1.580   117.2    34.8    19.9
2010 08 12    16 38.01   -28 21.1    0.944    1.630   112.7    35.0    20.3
2010 08 22    17 01.05   -26 28.5    1.066    1.682   108.1    34.9    20.6
2010 09 01    17 23.17   -24 52.8    1.197    1.735   103.3    34.5    20.9
2010 09 11    17 44.60   -23 29.3    1.337    1.788    98.5    33.8    21.2
2010 09 21    18 05.52   -22 13.6    1.484    1.842    93.5    33.0    21.5
2010 10 01    18 25.99   -21 02.5    1.636    1.896    88.5    31.9    21.7
2010 10 11    18 46.08   -19 53.1    1.792    1.949    83.4    30.6    21.9

Timothy B. Spahr             (C) Copyright 2010 MPC           M.P.E.C. 2010-E60

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