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Asteroid 1997 XF11 (Earth Close-Approach)
Figure 3. This plot shows a zoomed view of the previous plot (Fig. 2) near the Earth. The Earth is
shown to scale. The original full-size plot (created by Paul Chodas, 1998-May-20) is also available as a
PostScript file.
1997 XF11 orbit solution used in the above analysis
(excludes 1990 pre-discovery observations)
Solution Reference: JPL#08
98 Observations spanning 1997-Dec-06 to 1998-Mar-04
RMS residual = 0.608 arcsec
Epoch = 1998 Mar 30.0 TDB
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