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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 2010Colin SnodgrassMax Planck Institute for Solar System ResearchTel: +49 5556 979 358Email: snodgrass@mps.mpg.deRita Schulz, ESA Rosetta Project ScientistResearch & Scientific Support DepartmentDirectorate of Science & Robotic ExplorationESTEC, The NetherlandsTel: +31 71 565 4821Email: rschulz@rssd.esa.intJessica Agarwal, Former ESA Research Fellowc/o Clare BinghamResearch & Scientific Support DepartmentDirectorate of Science & Robotic ExplorationESTEC, The NetherlandsTel: +31 71 565 3553Email: Clare.Bingham@esa.int