Miguel Hurtado (born 22 April 1978 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish

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and a

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at OAM's La Sagra Observatory, where he participated in the discovery of

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comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or Coma (cometary), coma surrounding ...

s, and

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. Miguel Hurtado has listed the discovery of more than 2300

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 including 76

near-earth object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun ( perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU). This definition applies to the object's orbit a ...

s such as 2012 DA14, as well as 5 comets and 19 supernovae. As of 2017, all numbered asteroids are credited by the

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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

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

Discoveries

Near-Earth asteroids

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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

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