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Álvaro López-García (1941-2019) was a Spanish astronomer, professor of astronomy at the University of Valencia and director of the Valencia University Observatory during the years 1968-2000. He was a specialist in astrometry and the dynamics of minor planets, and had discovered numerous of these bodies since the early 1980s, in collaboration with astronomer Henri Debehogne.

Awards and honors The main-belt asteroid 4657 Lopez, discovered by Nikolai Chernykh in 1979, was named in his honor.

List of discovered minor planets

co-discoveries made with: H. Debehogne

20 July 1992 19 July 1992 30 July 1992 26 July 1992 22 July 1992 5 August 1992 11538 Brunico 22 July 1992 21 July 1992 5 August 1992 28 July 1992 1 August 1992 22 July 1992

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