小行星(15874) 1996 TL66是一顆外海王星天體,是由大衛·朱維特(David C. Jewitt)、珍妮·劉(Jane X. Luu)與華裔美籍的陳俊三位天文學家所共同發現的,也是第一顆黃道離散天體。雖然1995 TL8小行星比較早被發現,但是卻比較晚被分類為黃道離散天體。
經過光學與熱量聯合觀測後,它的直徑估計約為630公里。
外部連結
- http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpec/J97/J97B18.html
- http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/pressinfo/1996TL66.html — CfA news release
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070207114229/http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/hotimage/tl66.html , a Newly Discovered Planetesimal]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071217104253/http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb/tl66.html - A New Dynamical Class in the Outer Solar System] — from David Jewitt's Kuiper Belt website
- [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html list of known TNOs, including size estimates]
- [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPLists.html IAU minor planet lists]
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