A non-family asteroidfrom the outer main belt with an orbital period of 5.58 years, 1436 Salonta was namedafter the Romanian city of the same name.
Discovered by Gyorgy Kulin at the Konkoly Observatory in 1936, the asteroid was later named for the Romanian city of Salonta, the birthplace of the discoverer. Salonta is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. 5.58 yr (2,038 days) main-belt  (outer)
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