132524 APL

Author(s): Art Blos

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132524 APL is a small asteroid in the asteroid belt, discovered by the LINEAR project in 2002. It was named after the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which manages the New Horizons spacecraft that performed a distant and incidental flyby of the asteroid on 2006-Jun-13, at a distance of 102,000 km.

Orbit of 132524 APL (in red) and trajectory of New Horizons (in gray)

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