(132524) APL
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Asteroid (132524) APL |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.606 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.272 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.898 AU - 3.313 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.164 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4 a 75 d |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.452 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ~ 2.5 km |
| Absolute brightness | 15.06 mag |
| Spectral class | S type |
| history | |
| Explorer | LINEAR |
| Date of discovery | May 9, 2002 |
| Another name | 2002 JF56 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(132524) APL (previously known under the provisional designation 2002 JF 56 ) is a small asteroid about 2.5 km in diameter. It was discovered on May 9th, 2002 by the LINEAR sky surveillance in New Mexico , USA .
The New Horizons spacecraft flew past the asteroid at a distance of 101,867 km on its way to the dwarf planet Pluto on June 13, 2006 at 4:05 UTC . The two "points" in the adjacent picture are photos of the asteroid that were taken on June 11 (below, from a distance of 3.36 million kilometers) and on June 12, 2006 (above, from a distance of 1.34 million kilometers) were picked up by the spacecraft.
At the suggestion of Dr. Alan Stern , head of the New Horizons project, in March 2007 the IAU named the asteroid after the “Applied Physics Lab” (APL) at Johns Hopkins University .