(675570) Mircealite Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 2 December 2015 by EURONEAR at La Palma.

Mircea Lițe (1963–2018) was a Romanian museographer of Baia Mare Planetarium. He founded the online virtual exhibition “Traditional Romanian Constellations” and the innovative project “The Sky in Your Hands”, which brought a mobile tactile planetarium to blind and visually-impaired people.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #20, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Mircealite is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mircealite is 2.84 au from the Sun and 3.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number675570
Provisional designation2015 XD307
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)18.23
Orbital period4.28 years
Semi-major axis2.64 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.39 – 2.88 au
Eccentricity0.0929
Inclination2.98°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.40 au

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

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