(132524) APL

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( 132524 ) APL ( previously known under the provisional designation 2002 JF56 ) is a small asteroid at about 2.5 km in diameter. He was discovered on 9 May 2002 by the LINEAR sky monitoring in New Mexico, USA.

The space probe New Horizons flew on their way to the dwarf planet Pluto on 13 June 2006 at 4:05 UTC at a distance of 101,867 kilometers of the asteroid over. The two "points" in the picture are photos of the asteroid that on June 11, (bottom, from a distance of 3.36 million kilometers ) and on 12 June 2006 ( above, from a distance of 1.34 million kilometers ) were taken by the spacecraft.

At the suggestion of Dr. Alan Stern, director of the New Horizons project, the IAU has designated in March 2007, the asteroid after the "Applied Physics Lab " (APL ) at Johns Hopkins University.

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