Reinmuth, Asteroid Moon

Reinmuth (aka 1862 Apollo) Union World – Asteroid Moon in the Sol System – Occupied by private Company. Sol Radio (GalNet Channel 9998) Permanent Residents 23 – Employees 200 - Part of the Main Asteroid Belt Association (MABA)

- Reinmuth features a sub surface base that once was part of the RAID program (early United Earth Period) and has  been occupied by SOL Radio. Providing old fashioned Light Speed Radio and GaLNet audio programming featuring news and local information about the Sol System. It transmits the most popular Audio Only Program  Union Wide :” 10.000 All time Earth Oldies” once every  Standard year.

1862 Apollo ( /əˈpɒloʊ/) is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973. It is named after the Greek god Apollo. 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. Analysis of the spin of this object provided observational evidence of the YORP effect. It was the first asteroid recognized to cross Earth's orbit. It is also a Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid.

On November 4, 2005, it was announced that an asteroid moon, or satellite of Apollo, had been detected by radar observations from Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, October 29 – November 2, 2005. The standard provisional designation for this satellite isS/2005 (1862) 1. The announcement is contained in the International Astronomical Union Circular (IAUC) 8627 [2]. The satellite is just 80 m across and orbits Apollo closely, in an orbit a mere 3 km in radius – This moon was destroyed during a Weapon Test of the RAID program in 2102

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