(10202) Mioaramandea Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 August 1997 by NEAT at Haleakala.
Mioara Mandea (b. 1958) is a Romanian-French geophysicist who is the head of the Science Coordination department at the Centre national d'études spatiales. Her research is focused on the Earth's geomagnetic field and she is involved in the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Mioara received the 2014 American Geophysical Union International Award.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #2, 19), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mioaramandea is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mioaramandea is 2.41 au from the Sun and 1.48 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10202 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 PE |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.44 km (#11,761 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.205 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.86 |
| Orbital period | 3.57 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 2.47 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0569 |
| Inclination | 5.96° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.