[IAUC] CBET 547: 20060616 : 2002 JF56

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2002 JF56
     L. Barrera, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias y Educacion,
Santiago; and C. Tubiana, R. Duffard, and H. Boehnhardt, Max Planck
Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, write that
minor planet 2002 JF56 was observed with the FORS2 instrument at the
European Southern Observatory's 8.2-m Very Large Telescope telescope
'Antu' on four nights between May 25 and June 2.  Preliminary analysis
of the visible spectra indicate an S-type taxonomy for the object,
which was being viewed during a distant fly-by of the 'New Horizons'
spacecraft on June 13.


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