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TARGET_NAME 132524 APL
PRIMARY_BODY_NAME SUN
TARGET_TYPE ASTEROID
TARGET_DESCRIPTION
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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