(627435) Mircearusu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 June 2011 by EURONEAR at Cerro Tololo.
Mircea Rusu (b. 1936) is a retired Romanian professor in the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest. He wrote eleven textbooks and about 100 papers. Mircea worked on lasers, nuclear magnetic resonance, radioastronomy and astrophysics. He was a member of many associations and attended many schools and camps.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #19, 12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mircearusu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mircearusu is 2.54 au from the Sun and 2.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 627435 |
| Provisional designation | 2008 UO387 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 18.44 |
| Orbital period | 3.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.54 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.117 |
| Inclination | 6.27° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.989 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.