132524 APL
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132524 APL (previously known by its provisional designation, 2002 JF56) is a small asteroid about 2.5 kilometers across visited by the New Horizons probe, which passed it at about 101,867 km at 04:05 UTC on June 13, 2006. The best current estimate of the asteroid's diameter is approximately 2.3 kilometers, and the spectra obtained by New Horizons shows that APL is an S-type asteroid. [1]
Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, named the asteroid in reference to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, which runs the mission. [1]
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- The orbit of 2002 JF56 - NASA
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