Tag: Romanian asteroids

  Two new asteroids have received Romanian names. The asteroid number 10466 received the name Marius-Ioan, after Marius-Ioan Piso, who is the president of the Romanian Space Agency and asteroid 10707 was named Prunariu, after Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, who was the first Romanian cosmonaut.Both asteroids were discovered in 1981. Marius-Ioan Piso has founded the Romanian Space…