Paulo R. Holvorcem
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paulo R. Holvorcem is a Brazilian amateur astronomer who lives in Campinas, Brazil.
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery or co-discovery (with Charles W. Juels) of about 200 asteroids between 1998 and 2003.
Holvorcem with Juels also discovered two comets: C/2002 Y1 (Juels-Holvorcem) and C/2005 N1 (Juels-Holvorcem). Holvorcem was also involved in the discovery of C/2011 K1 (Schwartz-Holvorcem).[1]
The asteroid (13421) Holvorcem was named after him.
[edit] References
- ^ Elenin, Leonid (2011-06-07). "First comet of Tenagra observatory". http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/06/07/first-comet-of-tenagra-observatory/. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
- Paulo Holvorcem
- Minor Planet Center: Minor Planet Discoverers
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: 2003 Comet Awards Announced
 |
This Brazilian scientist article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This article about an astronomer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
