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So its name will probably be Johnshopkinsappliedphysicslab?? Wow --Sonjaaa 19:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- eheh. I think 2002 JF56 is a better name. LOL. Besides in the future it will be mined to death or sent to Mars or Venus for terraforming. and BTW stop naming rocks! Only objects bigger than 10 km should have names. --Pedro 17:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Then name it "Johaphyl" - JOhns Hopkins Applied PHYsics Lab. An acronymic portmanteau name! GBC 00:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Horizons[edit]

Somebody should get some of the pictures form New Horizons. I can't find them and I really want to see what images from New Horizons looks like. Thanks ahead of time, and May the Force be with you!

New Name[edit]

The name of 2002 JF56 was formally decided "APL". I think that I should change the article name.

Yeah, I just saw it now too. Here's the link [1]--Planetary 00:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Anyone know what its minor planet number is? Bryan Derksen 08:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)~~ Well, I'm officially dumb. I'm guessing it's 132524, the number that's already in the title, right? :) Bryan Derksen 01:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it meant to be pronounced "Ay-pee-ell" or "Apple"? Serendipodous 17:28, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The former (acronym). Michaelbusch 22:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the photograph[edit]

The New Horizens article says this: " The probe passed closest to the asteroid 132524 APL in the Belt at about 101,867 km at 04:05 UTC. Pictures were taken." The photograph at the top of the article here shows two taken at 30 times closest encounter and ten times closest encounter. Is it possible to have the photograph at closest encounter (after all, all NASA photos are public domain)Ericl (talk) 13:30, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Technical language[edit]

I fixed the first paragraph, adding discovery info and fixing the inclination statement. I have no idee how to fix the 2nd paragraph, it reads very strange... Looking at New_Horizons#Asteroid_132524_APL the facts make a little more sense. I'll leave it to someone else to wordsmith this a little better. Friendly Person (talk) 04:47, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]