Jaume Nomen

Jaume Nomen Torres (also: Jaime Nomen; born June 23, 1960 in Tortosa, Catalonia) is a Spanish oral and maxillofacial surgeon, amateur astronomer and discoverer of numerous minor planets. He is of Catalan origin and became publicly known for the discovery of the near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 (later named 367943 Duende) by the OAM team (of which he is a member) during the La Sagra Sky Survey. The asteroid 56561 Jaimenomen is named after him.[2]

Minor planets discovered: 55[1]
19539 AnaverduMay 14, 1999
19776 BalearsAugust 4, 2000
19783 AntoniromanyaAugust 27, 2000
(20621) 1999 TK11October 9, 1999
23318 SalvadorsanchezJanuary 20, 2001
24048 PedroduqueOctober 10, 1999
(25470) 1999 XW35December 6, 1999
25472 JoanoroDecember 6, 1999
(32530) 2001 PW12August 12, 1999
(32541) 2001 QF2August 17, 2001
(32625) 2001 RZ45September 15, 2001
(34873) 2001 UF65October 20, 2001
37391 EbreDecember 1, 2001
38671 VerdaguerAugust 7, 2000
(38961) 2000 TG1October 1, 2000
(51872) 2001 PN9August 10, 2001
(52034) 2002 PX42August 9, 2002
(54676) 2000 YP12December 25, 2000
(55211) 2001 RL43September 13, 2001
(55597) 2002 RO66September 7, 2002
(55614) 2002 TJ59October 4, 2002
(57367) 2001 RM43September 13, 2001
(58044) 2002 WFNovember 17, 2002
(61351) 2000 PS9August 9, 2000
(62131) 2000 SH4September 21, 2000
(62132) 2000 SJ4September 21, 2000
(63814) 2001 RY45September 15, 2001
(64284) 2001 UE6October 20, 2001
(64587) 2001 XADecember 1, 2001
(67539) 2000 SK4September 22, 2000
(72068) 2000 YC29December 31, 2000
(72069) 2000 YD29December 31, 2000
(74591) 1999 PS1August 10, 1999
(74624) 1999 RS32September 10, 1999
(77921) 2002 EA12March 15, 2002
(88368) 2001 PO9August 11, 2001
(88370) 2001 PQ14August 15, 2001
(88467) 2001 QM108August 25, 2001
(89835) 2002 CM12February 7, 2002
(91424) 1999 PT1August 10, 1999
(94411) 2001 TA17October 13, 2001
(94893) 2001 YG5December 25, 2001
(95031) 2002 AV26January 13, 2002
(95218) 2002 CO14February 8, 2002
(99596) 2002 GG24April 14, 2002
(106847) 2000 YO16December 28, 2000
(112549) 2002 PZ42August 11, 2002
(124311) 2001 QO73August 21, 2001
(125459) 2001 WQ5November 20, 2001
(146372) 2001 QE2August 16, 2001
(159610) 2002 AJ13January 12, 2002
(182108) 2000 PY6August 6, 2000
(286621) 2002 EX1March 8, 2002
(373571) 2001 YF5December 25, 2001
(380397) 2002 XE89December 15, 2002

Nomen is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, professor in the University of Barcelona and an active member of GEA,[3] (Grup d'Estudis Astronòmics, Barcelona).[4] He has discovered more than sixty asteroids[5] of which 55 have been numbered.[1] He is the director of the Unicorn Project 3SSS, that places three automatic telescopes of 61 cm diameter in the Piera Observatory, l'Ametlla de Mar Observatory and Costitx Observatory to increase the capacity of detection and study of the asteroids.[3]

References
  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). "(56561) Jaimenomen [2.33, 0.13, 7.4]". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (56561) Jaimenomen, Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 220. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5_2620. ISBN 978-3-540-34361-5.
  3. (in Spanish)"Dedicació de l'asteroide Verdaguer" Archived 2007-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, astrogea.com.
  4. Grup d'Estudis Astronòmics, webpage. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  5. "Discovered asteroids" Archived 2010-12-13 at the Wayback Machine astrogea.org/jnomen.


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