MONITORING ACTIVE
Written by: Astrophyzix Digital Observatory and Planetary Defence Research centre
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Discovery & Designation
(500080) 2011 WV134 is a numbered near-Earth asteroid (NEA) first detected on 30 November 2011 by the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded asteroid detection program based in Arizona. Following confirmation and orbital refinement, the object received its permanent minor planet number 500080 from the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center (MPC).
The asteroid’s provisional designation “2011 WV134” follows the standard MPC naming convention, indicating discovery in the second half of November 2011.