Miguel Hurtado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Spanish software development
Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1978
Place of Birth: Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
Profession: software
Nationality: Spain
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
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About Miguel Hurtado
- Miguel Hurtado (born 22 April 1978 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish astronomer and a software developer at OAM's La Sagra Observatory, where he participated in the discovery of minor planets, comets, and supernovae.Miguel Hurtado has listed the discovery of more than 2300 asteroids including 76 near-earth objects such as 2012 DA14, as well as 5 comets and 19 supernovae.
- As of 2017, all numbered asteroids are credited by the Minor Planet Center 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 main-belt asteroid 362911 Miguelhurtado, discovered at OAM–La Sagra Observatory in 2009, was named in his honor.
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