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An Asteroid
According to this Minor Planets Center website page:
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http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs130001.html
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The number is 132524
2002 JF56 was a provisional name
APL is the designated name as of January, 2007
132524 APL was discovered 2002-05-09 by LINEAR at Socorro
According to this NAIF/SPICE SP-Kernel:
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sb-2002jf56-2.bsp
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The NAIF/SPICE ID is 3127862
***N.B. That is different from the MPC designation
According to Wikipedia:
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132524 APL is a small asteroid 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 2.5 kilometers.
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