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16984 Veillet (1999 AA25) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 15 1999 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols.Naming notice (21 Sep 2002)Christian Veillet (b. 1954) was for several years head of the lunar-ranging stationat the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur. Now senior astronomer for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope he is project scientist for the MegaPrime project. He recentlydiscovered that the transneptunian object 1998 WW31 is a binary.