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39382 Opportunity
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<p>39382 Opportunity (<a href="/facts/Minor_planet_provisional_designation/1XVyJynE">provisional designation</a> 2696 P-L) is a dark Hilidan <a href="/facts/Asteroid/g7Ulr1VB">asteroid</a> from the outermost region of the <a href="/facts/Asteroid_belt/YHAq2Eh3">asteroid belt</a>, approximately 7.5 kilometers in diameter. Discovered during the <a href="/facts/Palomar%25E2%2580%2593Leiden_survey/ST1nQ13z">Palomar–Leiden survey</a> at <a href="/facts/Palomar_Observatory/vRLjmDfr">Palomar Observatory</a> in 1960, it was named for NASA's <a href="/facts/Opportunity_(rover)/MEC0VIuy"><i>Opportunity</i> Mars rover</a>. </p>