Paulo R. Holvorcem

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Paulo R. Holvorcem is a Brazilian amateur astronomer who lives in Campinas, Brazil.

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery or co-discovery (with Charles W. Juels) of about 200 asteroids between 1998 and 2003.

Juels and Holvorcem won a 2003 Comet Award for their joint charge-coupled-device (CCD) electronic-camera discovery of comet C/2002 Y1 on December 28, 2002.[1]

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• Minor Planet Center: Minor Planet Discoverers
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: 2003 Comet Awards Announced