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2010 SO16 is a near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. The orbit was described by Christou Apostolos and David Asher at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. The object has a magnitude of 20.7 and is several hundred meters in diameter.2010 SO16 has a horseshoe orbit that allows it to stably share Earth’s orbital neighborhood without colliding with it.

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