Jaume Nomen Torres (also: Jaime Nomen; born June 23, 1960, in

Tortosa Tortosa (, ) is the capital of the '' comarca'' of Baix Ebre, in Catalonia, Spain. Tortosa is located at above sea level, by the Ebro river, protected on its northern side by the mountains of the Cardó Massif, of which Buinaca, one of the hi ...

, Catalonia) is a Spanish oral and maxillofacial surgeon, amateur

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...

, and discoverer of numerous

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s. He is of Catalan origin and became publicly known for the discovery of the near-Earth asteroid (later named 367943 Duende) by the OAM team (of which he is a member) during the La Sagra Sky Survey. The asteroid 56561 Jaimenomen is named after him. Nomen is a prolific discoverer of

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...

s, a professor at the

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, and an active member of GEA (Grup d'Estudis Astronòmics, Barcelona). He has discovered more than sixty

s, of which 55 have been numbered. He is the director of the Unicorn Project 3SSS, that places three automatic

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s of 61 cm in the Piera Observatory, l' Ametlla de Mar Observatory, and Costitx Observatory to increase the capacity of detection and study of asteroids.

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