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10034 Birlan is a main-belt

Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

discovered on December 30, 1981 by Edward L. G. Bowell

Edward L. G. Bowell

Edward L. G. Bowell , known as "Ted", is an American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, and the Université de Paris....

at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after Mirel Birlan, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory

Paris Observatory

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Few biographical data:

Mirel Birlan is born in 1963 in Romania, Giurgiu district, Vieru. He defend a bachelor degree in Ion Maiorescu High School in Giurgiu (now this school became a National College). MSc in Physics in 1986 in Bucharest University, Faculty of Physics. The PhD in Astronomy in Paris Observatory was defended in 1997 with the memoire Compositional and rotational properties of asteroids. The scientific topics in their research are mainly oriented to planetology.

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