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(7341) 1991 VK

minor planet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ571990 ↗
Source-derived summary

(7341) 1991 VK is a near-Earth minor planet in the Apollo group. It was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin and Kenneth J. Lawrence at the Palomar Observatory in California on 1 November 1991. It is listed as a potentially hazardous object. Every five years (from 1946 through 2091) the asteroid makes a close approach to the Earth. The most recent close approach to Earth was on 25 January 2022 at a distance of 0.064 AU (9,600,000 km; 5,900,000 mi).

The object is suspected of displaying cometary activity.

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The public source identifies “(7341) 1991 VK” as minor planet. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around minor and planet.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1946, 2091, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with minor and planet providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q571990. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1946, 2091 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “(7341) 1991 VK” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.