(750594) Cirstea Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 22 September 2014 by EURONEAR at La Palma.

Remus Cîrstea (b. 1969) is a Romanian TV-Multimedia lecturer at the University Politehnica Bucharest, former museograph and TV producer. He installed 14 digital planetaria in Romania, and founded an astronomical school observatory in Pitești.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #15, 21), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Cirstea is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Cirstea is 2.38 au from the Sun and 1.60 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number750594
Provisional designation2014 WD178
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)18.11
Orbital period4.14 years
Semi-major axis2.58 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.34 – 2.82 au
Eccentricity0.0931
Inclination9.36°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.34 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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