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    Notes for editors

    13 October 2010

    Asteroid P/2010 A2 was discovered by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) on 6 January 2010. LINEAR is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory programme, funded by the United States Air Force and NASA.

    For more information

    “A collision in 2009 as the origin of the debris trail of asteroid P/2010 A2” by C. Snodgrass et al. will be published in Nature, 14 October 2010

    “Newly disrupted main belt asteroid P/2010 A2” by D. Jewitt et al. will be published in Nature, 14 October 2010

    Colin Snodgrass
    Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
    Tel: +49 5556 979 358
    Email: snodgrass@mps.mpg.de

    Rita Schulz, ESA Rosetta Project Scientist
    Research & Scientific Support Department
    Directorate of Science & Robotic Exploration
    ESTEC, The Netherlands
    Tel: +31 71 565 4821
    Email: rschulz@rssd.esa.int

    Jessica Agarwal, Former ESA Research Fellow
    c/o Clare Bingham
    Research & Scientific Support Department
    Directorate of Science & Robotic Exploration
    ESTEC, The Netherlands
    Tel: +31 71 565 3553
    Email: Clare.Bingham@esa.int

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