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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | E. Bowell |
| Discovery site | Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory |
| Discovery date | December 30, 1981 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 10034 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1981 YG |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.9221326 |
| Peri | 2.2434102 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1313942 |
| Orbital period | 1516.0983747 |
| Mean anomaly | 92.83288 |
| Inclination | 14.82567 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 277.53041 |
| Argument of peri | 216.20519 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.4 |
10034 Birlan (1981 YG) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 30, 1981 by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after Mirel Birlan, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory.
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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