Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p (15874) 1996 TL66 (also written (15874) 1996 TL66) is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that resides in the scattered disc. The Spitzer Space Telescope has estimated this object to be about 575 km in diameter, but 2012 estimates from the Herschel Space Observatory estimate the diameter as closer to 339 km. It is not a detached object since its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) is under the influence of Neptune. Light-curve-amplitude analysis suggests it is a spheroid. Tancredi presents "in the form of a decision tree, the set of questions to be considered in order to classify an object as an icy 'dwarf planet'." They find that 1996 TL66 is very probably a dwarf planet. Mike Brown's website using the Spitzer diameter of 575 km lists it as a likely dwarf planet.. }
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- (15874)_1996_TL66 abstract "(15874) 1996 TL66 (also written (15874) 1996 TL66) is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that resides in the scattered disc. The Spitzer Space Telescope has estimated this object to be about 575 km in diameter, but 2012 estimates from the Herschel Space Observatory estimate the diameter as closer to 339 km. It is not a detached object since its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) is under the influence of Neptune. Light-curve-amplitude analysis suggests it is a spheroid. Tancredi presents "in the form of a decision tree, the set of questions to be considered in order to classify an object as an icy 'dwarf planet'." They find that 1996 TL66 is very probably a dwarf planet. Mike Brown's website using the Spitzer diameter of 575 km lists it as a likely dwarf planet.".