1862 Apollo
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Template:Minor Planet 1862 Apollo is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973.
It is the namesake of the Apollo asteroids, and the first one discovered, although because it was lost for a time its asteroid number (1862) is higher than that of some other Apollo asteroids such as 1566 Icarus. It is also a Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid.
It was the first asteroid recognized to cross Earth's orbit (although the earlier-discovered 887 Alinda is now known to do so as well).
Moon of Apollo
On November 4, 2005, it was announced that an asteroid moon, or satellite of Apollo has been detected by radar observations from Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, 29 October–2 November, 2005. The standard provisional designation for this satellite is S/2005 (1862) 1. The announcement is contained in the International Astronomical Union Circular (IAUC) 8627 (available only to subscribers). The satellite is just 80 m across and orbits Apollo closely, in an orbit a mere 3 km in radius [1].
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