(769288) Varadinagypal Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 April 2015 by EURONEAR at Roque de los Muchachos.
Pal Varadi Nagy (b. 1985) is a Hungarian-Romanian software engineer and amateur astronomer, writer and former radio presenter. A sidewalk astronomer guiding public stargazing events, astrophotographer and host of a radio show about astronomy, Pal published an atlas of full disk spectroheliograms based on his observations made in Cluj-Napoca.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #26, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Varadinagypal is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Varadinagypal is 2.41 au from the Sun and 1.45 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 769288 |
| Provisional designation | 2015 MT66 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 18.17 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.10 – 2.45 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0775 |
| Inclination | 6.43° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.