José Luis Ortiz Moreno

Minor planets discovered: 1
416252 Manuelherrera5 March 2003list
* discovery credited to the Sierra Nevada Obs.

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. The main-belt asteroid 4436 Ortizmoreno was named in his honor.

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