(9495) Eminescu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
The Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) tackled the essential problems of human existence---life, death, love, faith, hope, struggle. He accomplished this by literary means that remain unique. As a genius of universal culture, he was often compared with Shakespeare and Goethe. The name was suggested by M. Stavinschi.Naming citation (20000523/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Eminescu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Eminescu is 2.46 au from the Sun and 3.28 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9495 |
| Provisional designation | 4177 T-1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.26 km (#14,579 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.219 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.73 |
| Orbital period | 3.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.47 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.130 |
| Inclination | 4.64° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.912 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 26 March 1971
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- (5491) Kaulbach
- (5492) Thoma
- (5698) Nolde
- (6202) Georgemiley
- (6257) Thorvaldsen
- (6351) Neumann
- (6429) Brancusi
- (6674) Cezanne
- (6752) Ashley
- (7367) Giotto
- (7908) Zwingli
More named asteroids discovered by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.
- (1743) Schmidt
- (1744) Harriet
- (1776) Kuiper
- (1777) Gehrels
- (1778) Alfven
- (1795) Woltjer
- (1808) Bellerophon
- (1809) Prometheus
- (1810) Epimetheus
- (1811) Bruwer
- (1812) Gilgamesh
- (1813) Imhotep
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