
Asteroid 39382, Opportunity, was discovered on September 24, 1960 by C. J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken at Palomar Mountain Observatory near San Diego by Tom Gehrels, as part of the Palomar-Leiden Survey. It has a period of 7 years, 332 days.

The Opportunity rover
It was named for Opportunity, one of NASA's 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers (the other one being Spirit).
Its astrological meaning seems to be: opportunity. (This meaning was arrived at independently by Henk Middelraad.)