Named in honor of Christopher C. Clark, an electrooptical engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who designed and assembled the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking camera system. This NEAT camera contains a large-format CCD sensor that provides digital image data, allowing for computer-automated data analysis and Near-Earth Object discoveries. He used his expertise in the development, integration and testing of focal plane arrays to make NEAT a success. (M 26932) _ _.
Discovered on 14-2-1991 in Palomar by Helin, E. F.