Miguel Hurtado (born 22 April 1978 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish astronomer and a software developer at OAM's La Sagra Observatory, where he participated in the discovery of minor planets, comets, and supernovae.

Miguel Hurtado has listed the discovery of more than 2300 asteroids including 76 near-Earth objects such as 2012 DA14, as well as 5 comets and 19 supernovae. As of 2017, all numbered asteroids are credited by the Minor Planet Center to Mallorca Observatory, OAM. Jaime Nomen, his college and collaborator at the La Sagra Sky Survey (LSSS), was awarded the Shoemaker NEO Grant in 2010.

The main-belt asteroid 362911 Miguelhurtado, discovered at OAM–La Sagra Observatory in 2009, was named in his honor.

Discoveries

Near-Earth asteroids

Comets

P/2012 R2 (La Sagra) C/2012 B3 (La Sagra) P/2012 NJ (La Sagra) P/2012 S2 (La Sagra) C/2013 H1 (La Sagra)

Supernovae

SN 2010ax SN 2010dt SN 2010gq SN 2010eu SN 2010gj SN 2010gs SN 2010hn SN 2010ij SN 2010ix SN 2010jf SN 2010jm SN 2010lo SN 2011ak SN 2011bm SN 2011bk SN 2011dz SN 2013ci SN 2013dv SN 2013dw

See also

References

External links Miguel Hurtado Personal webpage La Sagra Sky Survey, Official Webpage La Sagra Sky Survey at minorplanets.org (Miguel Hurtado)