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(15874) 1996 TL66 (also written (15874) 1996 TL66) is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the scattered disc. Discovered in 1996 by David C. Jewitt et al., it was the first object to be categorized as a scattered disk object (SDO), although (48639) 1995 TL8, discovered a year earlier, was later recognised as a scattered disk object. It was one of the largest known Kuiper belt objects at the time of the discovery.
1996 TL66 orbits the Sun with a semi-major axis of 85.33 AU. Its diameter has been estimated at around 630 km by combined optical/thermal observations [2].
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- ^ Stansberry, Grundy, Brown, Spencer, Trilling, Cruikshank, Luc Margot Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects: Constraints from Spitzer Space Telescope (2007) [Preprint arXiv]
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