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Los Molinos Observatory

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Los Molinos Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico Los Molinos, OALM; obs. code: 844) is an astronomical observatory owned by the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay and operated in collaboration with the University of the Republic's Astronomy Department. It is located near the city of Las Piedras, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay. The observatory is actively involved in follow-up observations of small bodies in the Solar System such as asteroids and comets. It has the observatory code 844. The main-belt asteroid 10476 Los Molinos, discovered by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in 1981, was named after this observatory. The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 by the Minor Planet Center (M.P.C. 103975).

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Los Molinos Observatory
Camino de los Molinos, Montevideo Toledo Chico

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N -34.75539 ° E -56.19022 °
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Escuela 158

Camino de los Molinos 5771
15900 Montevideo, Toledo Chico
Montevideo, Uruguay
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Dirección General de Educación Inicial y Primaria

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