José Luis Ortiz Moreno 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.
Biography
José Luis Ortiz Moreno 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.
