(64070) NEAT Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 2001 by Juels, C. W., Holvorcem, P. R. at Fountain Hills.
The Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program, a joint-venture of the U.S. Air Force and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, began operations in Dec. 1995. The program currently utilizes 1.2-m telescopes with NEAT CCD cameras at two observing locations, Palomar Mountain and the Maui Space Surveillance Site.Naming citation (20050125/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where NEAT is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: NEAT is 2.96 au from the Sun and 3.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 64070 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 SS272 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.78 km (#13,265 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.196 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.63 |
| Orbital period | 3.86 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.95 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.208 |
| Inclination | 12.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.00 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.