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    EURONEAR - Discoveries

During 2008-2023 the following NEAs were discovered (15 secured and 7 lost due to lack of telescopes) with the INT, KASI and ESO/MPG telescopes, part of the EURONEAR project:

Designation     Orbit Discoverers
2014 LU14 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, V. Tudor
2014 NL52 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, V. Tudor, O. Zamora, A. Sota (OSN T150 recovery)
2014 OL339 Orbit Earth quasi-satellite! F. Char, O. Vaduvescu, V. Tudor
2014 SG143 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, T. Mocnik, M. Popescu
2014 VP Orbit L. Hudin, R. Cornea, O. Vaduvescu, T. Mocnik, M. Diaz Alfaro, I. Ordonez-Etxeberria, F. Lopez-Martinez
2015 HA117 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, M. Monelli, L. Monteagudo
2015 LT24 Orbit V. Inceu, O. Vaduvescu, S. Pyrzas
2015 VF65 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, O. Toloza, M. Micheli (ESA/OGS recovery)
2015 VG66 Orbit L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, O. Toloza, P. Veres (PS1 precovery), R. Duffard (OSN T150 recovery)
2018 VQ1 Orbit M. Popescu, O. Vaduvescu, T. Wilson, T. Davison, NEARBY team *
2018 VN3 Orbit C. Boldea, O. Vaduvescu, T. Davison, L. Hudin (ROASTERR-1 recovery), NEARBY team *
2023 DZ2 Orbit Virtual Impactor! C. Boldea, O. Vaduvescu, F. Barwell, K. Jhass, ParaSOL team **
2023 XC8 Orbit ParaSOL STU detection M. Popescu, O. Vaduvescu, J.-W. Heo, ParaSOL team **
2023 XP14 Orbit ParaSOL STU detection L. Curelaru, O. Vaduvescu, J.-W. Heo, M. Micheli (ESA/OGS recovery), ParaSOL team **
2023 XV21 Orbit ParaSOL Tycho detection M. Predatu, O. Vaduvescu, J.-W. Heo, ParaSOL team **
VBVI213 One-night lost D. Vidican, O. Vaduvescu, M. Birlan
EUHT400 One-night lost L. Hudin, O. Vaduvescu, V. Dhillon, D. Sahman
EUMO314 One-night lost T. Mocnik, F. Lopez-Martinez, O. Vaduvescu
EURV027 One-night lost (possibly geocentric object)   O. Vaduvescu, J. Font
EURVG08 One-night lost A. Manilla-Robles, O. Vaduvescu, P. van Oers
n3b1W01 One-night lost   ParaSOL STU detection O. Vaduvescu, J.-W. Heo, ParaSOL team **
n6p3W06 One-night lost   ParaSOL STU detection L. Curelaru, O. Vaduvescu, J.-W. Heo, ParaSOL team **

* NEARBY Team: D. Gorgan, V. Bacu, T. Stefanut, A. Sabou, D. Copandean Balazs, C. Nandra, C. Boldea, A. Boldea, M. Predatu, V. Pinter, A. Stanica, O. Vaduvescu.
** ParaSOL Team: M. Popescu, M. Stanescu, O. Vaduvescu, L. Curelaru, M. Predatu, D. Bertesteanu. INT proposal PIs: C. de la Fuente Marcos and R. de la Fuente Marcos. KASI proposal PI: E. Unda-Sanzana.

Few hundred MBAs were discovered by EURONEAR from Chile and La Palma since 2008, including the following 17 later named objects after Romanian raised to stars astronomers and public outreach people, as well as EURONEAR members and active collaborators: (263516) Alexescu, (257005) Arpadpal, (320790) Anestin, (330634) Boico, (346261) Alexandrescu, (450931) Coculescu, (358894) Demetrescu, (365761) Popovici, (369088) Marcus, (557045) Nadolschi, (572217) Dramba, (555152) Oproiu, (562964) Hudin, (564280) Tudorica, (574300) Curelaru, (579890) Mocnik, and (580301) Aznarmacias.