McAuliffe
McAuliffe A solar system asteroid (No. 3352); diameter 2–5 km; orbital period 2.57 years. Its orbit crosses that of Mars. A plan for the New Millenium Deep Space-1 spacecraft to visit McAuliffe in 1999 was cancelled.
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