(285263)1998 QE2
The asteroid was discovered in 1998, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program. While the asteroid is the size of nine cruise ships in length, it did not get its name from the Queen Elizabeth Two ship. New asteroids are named by the year they are detected, and an alphanumeric code related to the half-month it was discovered.
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2013年06月03日