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During 2008-2024 the following NEAs were discovered part of the EURONEAR project -
16 secured and 9 lost (due to lack of telescopes or late reduction), with the INT, KASI and ESO/MPG telescopes:

Designation	Number/Name	Orbit	Discoverers
2014 LU14	(622577) Mioriţa	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, KASI team, ParaSOL team **
2023 XP14		Orbit ParaSOL STU detection	L. Curelaru, O. Vaduvescu, KASI team, M. Micheli (ESA/OGS recovery), ParaSOL team **
2023 XV21		Orbit ParaSOL Tycho detection	M. Predatu, O. Vaduvescu, KASI team, ParaSOL team **
2024 AZ10		Orbit ParaSOL Tycho detection	M. Predatu, O. Vaduvescu, KASI team, 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, KASI team, ParaSOL team **
n6p3W06		One-night lost   ParaSOL STU detection	L. Curelaru, O. Vaduvescu, KASI team, ParaSOL team **
n5b7402		One-night lost   ParaSOL STU detection	O. Vaduvescu, M. Stanescu, ParaSOL team **
n6c2188		One-night lost   ParaSOL Tycho detection	M. Predatu, M. Stanescu, 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.

Probably few hundred MBAs were discovered by EURONEAR from Chile and La Palma since 2008, including the following 33 later named objects after Romanian professionals, amateur astronomers, teachers and public outreach people having major contributions in Romanian astronomy, 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, (580301) Aznarmacias, (601894) Naiman, (604468) Olenici, (606017) Irimes, (627030) Ciobanu, (646626) ValentinGrigore, (646684) Boaca, (664136) Tercu, (670740) MihailSandu. (673014) Kosakissattila, (690780) Constantinescu, (690923) Predatu, (693043) Suhay, (694537) Vintdevara, (708722) Timisoara, (724666) Unda-Sanzana and (743062) DianaBesliu.

In August 2024, the first NEA discovered by EURONEAR with the INT in 2014 was named Mioriţa.