Paulo R. Holvorcem

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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.

References

1. ^ 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

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