page_title: (388188) 2006 DP14
hierarchical_section_title: (388188) 2006 DP14
caption_attribution_description: English: Radar image, taken with the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna, of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP 14, which is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) long
context_page_description: (388188) 2006 DP₁₄, provisional designation 2006 DP₁₄, is a sub-kilometer sized, peanut-shaped asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. This contact binary was discovered on 23 February 2006, by astronomers of the LINEAR program at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States. On 10 February 2014, it passed 6.25 lunar distances from Earth. The asteroid is approximately 400 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 5.77 hours.
context_section_description: (388188) 2006 DP₁₄, provisional designation 2006 DP₁₄, is a sub-kilometer sized, peanut-shaped asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. This contact binary was discovered on 23 February 2006, by astronomers of the LINEAR program at the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site near Socorro, New Mexico, in the United States. On 10 February 2014, it passed 6.25 lunar distances from Earth. The asteroid is approximately 400 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 5.77 hours.
caption: Radar image of 2006 DP14 by the Arecibo Observatory in 2014
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