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Description: Discovering Asteroids
In 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope found this asteroid while observing objects in the constellation Centaurus.
The exposure, tracking stars, shows the asteroid as a 19-arcsec streak. This asteroid is about 2 km in diameter and
was located about 140 million km (87 million mi) from Earth.
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