Paulo R. Holvorcem

Paulo Renato Centeno Holvorcem (born July 10, 1967 ) is a Brazilian amateur astronomer and asteroid explorer who lives in Porto Seguro in the Brazilian state of Bahia .

Holvorcem graduated from the University of Brasília with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1987 . In 1991 he received his master's degree in meteorology . In 1994 he received his PhD in applied mathematics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas .

Holvorcem discovered over 300 asteroids between 1998 and 2004, more than half of them together with Charles W. Juels and Michael Schwartz .

Together with Juels he discovered the comets C / 2002 Y1 (Juels-Holvorcem) and C / 2005 N1 (Juels-Holvorcem) and together with Michael Schwartz on May 26, 2011 at the Tenagra Observatory, the comet C / 2011 K1 (Schwartz-Holvorcem ) . For the discovery of C / 2002 Y1, the explorers were awarded the Harvard-Smithsonian Comet Award 2003.

The asteroid (13421) Holvorcem was named after him.

literature

Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . 5th ed.Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 (English) ( limited preview in Google book search)

personal data
SURNAME	Holvorcem, Paulo R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holvorcem, Paulo Renato Centeno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian amateur astronomer and asteroid explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1967