José Luis Ortiz Moreno

For other uses, see José Ortiz (disambiguation).
Minor planets discovered: 1
416252 Manuelherrera 5 March 2003 list
* discovery credited to the Sierra Nevada Obs.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ortiz and the second or maternal family name is Moreno.

José Luis Ortiz Moreno (born 1967) is a Spanish astronomer, and former vice director of Technology at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Spain. He leads a team working on minor planets at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, Spain, and was involved in the 2017 discovery of a ring system around the dwarf planet Haumea. The main-belt asteroid 4436 Ortizmoreno was named in his honor.


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