This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the

Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function ...

with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids,

Jupiter trojan The Jupiter trojans, commonly called trojan asteroids or simply trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each trojan librates around one of Jupiter's stable Lagrange poin ...

s and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 numbered minor planets are credited to 1141 astronomers and 253

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, telescopes or surveys ''(see )''. On how a discovery is made, ''see

observations of small Solar System bodies Observations of minor planets as well as comets and natural satellites of the Solar System are made by astronomical observatories all over the world and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), a service of the International Astronomical Union. ...

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Discovering astronomers

}, (bio-de) , align=left , M. Matsuyama , , - id="D. Matter" , align=left , Daniel Matter , 7 , 1957–pres. , , align=left , D. Matter; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , D. Matter , , - id="A. Maury" , align=left ,

Alain Maury Alain J. Maury (born 1958) is a French astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids. He discovered the periodic comet 115P/Maury as well as the non-periodic C/1988 C1 (Maury-Phinney). He has discovered a number of asteroids, including the ...

, 9 , 1958–pres. , , align=left , A. Maury; , align=left , A. Maury , , - id="D. Mayes" , align=left , Deronda Mayes , , 1957–pres. , , align=left , D. Mayes; inferred , align=left , D. Mayes , , - id="E. Mazzoni" , align=left , Emiliano Mazzoni , 2 , 1953–pres. , , align=left , E. Mazzoni; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , E. Mazzoni , , - id="M. Mazzucato" , align=left , Michele Mazzucato , 6 , 1962–pres. , , align=left , M. Mazzucato; Michele T. Mazzucato, (bio-it) , align=left , M. Mazzucato , , - id="J. V. McClusky" , align=left ,

John V. McClusky John V. McClusky is an American astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almo ...

157 Year 157 ( CLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Civica and Aquillus (or, less frequently, year 910 ''Ab urbe condit ...

, n.a. , , align=left , J. V. McClusky; , align=left , J. V. McClusky , — , - id="B. D. McCormack" , align=left , Billy D. McCormack , , n.a. , , align=left , B. D. McCormack; , align=left , B. D. McCormack , — , - id="J. McCormick" , align=left ,

Jennie McCormick Jennie Margaret McCormick , FRASNZ (; born 1963) is a New Zealand amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer who conducts astronomical research from the Farm Cove Observatory in Auckland. She discovered the asteroid officially named New Zealand ...

, , n.a. , , align=left , J. McCormick; , align=left , J. McCormick , — , - id="A. D. McDermott" , align=left , Alric D. McDermott , , n.a. , , align=left , A. D. McDermott; , align=left , A. D. McDermott , — , - id="D. McDonald" , align=left , David McDonald (astronomer) , 2 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , D. McDonald; Dave McDonald, amateur , align=left , D. McDonald , , - id="S. McDonald" , align=left , Stephen W. McDonald , , n.a. , , align=left , S. McDonald; , align=left , S. McDonald , — , - id="J. McGaha" , align=left , James E. McGaha , 6 , 1946–pres. , , align=left , J. McGaha; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , J. McGaha , , - id="P. McKenzie" , align=left , P. McKenzie , , n.a. , , align=left , P. McKenzie; inferred , align=left , P. McKenzie , — , - id="D. McLeish" , align=left , David McLeish (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , D. McLeish; (bio-it) , align=left , D. McLeish , — , - id="R. H. McNaught" , align=left ,

Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught (born in Scotland in 1956) is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University (ANU). He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observator ...

491 __NOTOC__ Year 491 ( CDXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 12 ...

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, align=left , R. H. McNaught; , align=left , R. H. McNaught , , - id="J. Medkeff" , align=left ,

Jeffrey S. Medkeff Jeffrey S. Medkeff (1968 – 3 August 2008), usually known as Jeff Medkeff, was a prominent science writer and educator. He was also a designer of robotic telescopes, a minor philanthropist, and an advocate of personal and sexual freedom. Early ...

, 10 , 1968–2008 , , align=left , J. Medkeff; , align=left , J. Medkeff , , - id="K. J. Meech" , align=left ,

Karen Jean Meech Karen J. Meech (born 1959) is an American planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaii. Career Karen Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relat ...

, 15 , 1959–pres. , , align=left , K. J. Meech; , align=left , K. J. Meech , , - id="C. Meese" , align=left , Carol Neese , , 1958–pres. , , align=left , C. Neese; Carol Lynn Neese, MPC-typo: Meese , align=left , C. Meese , , - id="D. Megevand" , align=left , Denis Mégevand , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Megevand; Geneva Obs.,

HARPS The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-precision echelle planet-finding spectrograph installed in 2002 on the ESO's 3.6m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The first light was achieved in February 2003. H ...

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, align=left , D. Megevand , — , - id="S. Melchert" , align=left , Sven Melchert , 2 , 1968–pres. , , align=left , S. Melchert; amateur, Guidestar , disc: and with

Mark Emmerich This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 nu ...

, align=left , S. Melchert , — , - id="P. Melotte" , align=left ,

Philibert Jacques Melotte Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was ...

, 1 , 1880–1961 , , align=left , P. Melotte; disc: , align=left , P. Melotte , — , - id="J. D. Mendenhall" , align=left , J. Dave Mendenhall , , n.a. , , align=left , J. D. Mendenhall; (bio-it) , align=left , J. D. Mendenhall , — , - id="J.-C. Merlin" , align=left , Jean-Claude Merlin , 75 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , J.-C. Merlin; (bio-fr) , align=left , J.-C. Merlin , , - id="S. Meszaros" , align=left , Szabolcs Mészáros , 5 , 1981–pres. , , align=left , S. Mészáros; (bio-it) , align=left , S. Meszaros , — , - id="J. H. Metcalf" , align=left , Joel Hastings Metcalf , 41 , 1866–1925 , , align=left , J. H. Metcalf; , align=left , J. H. Metcalf , , , - id="N. V. Metlova" , align=left , Natalʹja Vitalʹevna Metlova , , n.a. , , align=left , N. V. Metlova; (bio-it) , align=left , N. V. Metlova , — , - id="M. Meunier" , align=left , Michel Meunier , , 1964–pres. , , align=left , M. Meunier; amateur, (bio-it), C/1997 J2 (Meunier–Dupouy) , align=left , M. Meunier , , - id="E. Meyer" , align=left ,

Erich Meyer Erich Meyer (born 6 August 1951) is an Austrian engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids. Astronomical career Between 1996 and 1999, using the private observatory Meyer/Obermair in Davidschlag (municipality Kirchschlag bei Lin ...

, 22 , 1951–pres. , , align=left , E. Meyer; amateur , align=left , E. Meyer , , - id="M. Meyer" , align=left , Maik Meyer , 16 , 1970–pres. , , align=left , M. Meyer; amateur, (bio-de)
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, align=left , M. Meyer , , - id="J. Michaud" , align=left , J. Michaud , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Michaud; inferred , align=left , J. Michaud , — , - id="M. Micheli" , align=left , Marco Micheli , 23 , 1983–pres. , , align=left , M. Micheli; ESA/Pan-STARRS1 (news-it), (bio-it) , align=left , M. Micheli , , - id="R. Michelsen" , align=left , René Michelsen , 8 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Michelsen; , align=left , R. Michelsen , , - id="C. Mikolajczak" , align=left , Celina Mikolajczak , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , C. Mikolajczak; (bio-it) , align=left , C. Mikolajczak , — , - id="B. Mikuz" , align=left , Blaž Mikuž , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , B. Mikuž; at Črni Vrh , align=left , B. Mikuz , — , - id="H. Mikuz" , align=left , Herman Mikuž , 32 , n.a. , , align=left , H. Mikuž; at Črni Vrh, (bio-it) , align=left , H. Mikuz , — , - id="R. Miles" , align=left , R. Miles , , n.a. , , align=left , R. Miles; inferred , align=left , R. Miles , , - id="R. Millis" , align=left , Robert L. Millis , 129 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Millis; occultation, at Lowell Observatory, (bio-it), (bio-fr) , align=left , R. Millis; R. L. Millis , , - id="E. Millosevich" , align=left ,

Elia Millosevich Elia Filippo Francesco Giuseppe Maria Millosevich (5 September 1848 in Venice – 5 December 1919 in Rome) was an Italian astronomer.br>boka - 0.indd/ref> He specialized in calculating the orbits of comets and asteroids, in particular 433 Ero ...

, 2 , 1848–1919 , , align=left , E. Millosevich; , align=left , E. Millosevich , , - id="M. Mills" , align=left , Matt Mills (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Mills; inferred , align=left , M. Mills , — , - id="R. Minkowski" , align=left , Rudolph Minkowski , , 1895–1976 , , align=left , R. Minkowski; , align=left , R. Minkowski , , - id="A. Miranda" , align=left , Alberto Miranda , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Miranda; co-disc #I. P. Griffin , align=left , A. Miranda , — , - id="T. Mitani" , align=left , Tetsuyasu Mitani , 1 , 1927–2004 , , align=left , T. Mitani; disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , T. Mitani , , - id="S. Miyasaka" , align=left ,

Seidai Miyasaka is a Japanese astronomer. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the co-discovery of four asteroids he made with Japanese astronomer Hiroshi Abe during 1993–1997. The outer main-belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in th ...

, 4 , 1955–pres. , , align=left , S. Miyasaka; , align=left , S. Miyasaka , , - id="T. Mizuno" , align=left , Takashi Mizuno (astronomer) , , 1955–pres. , , align=left , T. Mizuno; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , T. Mizuno , , - id="Y. Mizuno" , align=left ,

Yoshikane Mizuno is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 52 minor planets he made at the Kani Observatory () between 1989 and 1993. The inner main-belt asteroid 4541 Mizuno, discovered ...

, 52 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , Y. Mizuno; at Kani Observatory , align=left , Y. Mizuno , , - id="T. Mocnik" , align=left , Teo Močnik , 1 , 1989–pres. , , align=left , T. Močnik
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, align=left , T. Mocnik , , - id="M. Moilanen" , align=left , Marko Moilanen , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Moilanen; (bio-it) , align=left , M. Moilanen , — , - id="L. A. Molnar" , align=left , Lawrence Alan Molnar , 86 , 1959–pres. , , align=left , L. A. Molnar; (bio-it) , align=left , L. A. Molnar , , - id="J. Montanne" , align=left , Jean Montanne , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Montanne; (bio-it) , align=left , J. Montanne , — , - id="N. Montigiani" , align=left , Nico Montigiani , , n.a. , , align=left , N. Montigiani; (bio-it) , align=left , N. Montigiani , — , - id="D. Morata" , align=left , Didier Morata , , 1954–pres. , , align=left , D. Morata; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , D. Morata , , - id="S. Morata" , align=left , Stéphane Morata , , 1977–pres. , , align=left , S. Morata; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , S. Morata , , - id="Z. Moravec" , align=left ,

Zdeněk Moravec Zdeněk Moravec (born 1968) is a Czech astronomer and astrophysicist. Zdeněk Moravec is a graduate from Charles University in Prague. He became a prolific discoverer of minor planets, during his stay at the Kleť Observatory in South Bohemia, ...

, 94 , 1968–pres. , , align=left , Z. Moravec; , align=left , Z. Moravec , — , - id="H. Mori" , align=left , Hiroshi Mori (astronomer) , 45 , 1958–pres. , , align=left , H. Mori; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , H. Mori , , - id="P. Mortfield" , align=left , Paul Mortfield , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , P. Mortfield; , align=left , P. Mortfield , — , - id="N. Moskovitz" , align=left , Nicholas Moskovitz , , 1981–pres. , , align=left , N. Moskovitz; , align=left , N. Moskovitz , , - id="P. M. Motl" , align=left , Patrick M. Motl , 9 , n.a. , , align=left , P. M. Motl; disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , P. M. Motl , — , - id="S. Mottola" , align=left , Stefano Mottola , 21 , n.a. , , align=left , S. Mottola; (bio-it) , align=left , S. Mottola , , - id="A. Mrkos" , align=left , Antonín Mrkos ,

274 Year 274 ( CCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelianus and Capitolinus (or, less frequently, year 1027 ''Ab ...

, 1918–1996 , , align=left , A. Mrkos; at Kleť Observatory , align=left , A. Mrkos , , - id="J. E. Mueller" , align=left , Jean Mueller , 13 , 1950–pres. , , align=left , J. E. Mueller; at Second Palomar Sky Survey , align=left , J. E. Mueller , , - id="M. Mukai" , align=left ,

Masaru Mukai is a Japanese astronomer. He is credited with the discovery of 13 asteroids by the Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astro ...

, 13 , 1949–pres. , , align=left , M. Mukai; unrelated to , align=left , M. Mukai , — , - id="G. Muler" , align=left , Gustavo Muler , 25 , 1967–pres. ,
, align=left , G. Muler; , align=left , G. Muler , , - id="J. D. Mulholland" , align=left , John-Derral Mulholland , , 1934–2008 , , align=left , J.-D. Mulholland; (bio-it) , align=left , J. D. Mulholland , — , - id="U. Munari" , align=left ,

Ulisse Munari Ulisse Munari (born 1960) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Padua, and works at the Asiago Observatory. He is a member of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) team, an al ...

, 49 , 1960–pres. , , align=left , U. Munari; at the Astronomical Observatories of Padua and Asiago , align=left , U. Munari , , - id="J. Munoz" , align=left , J. Muñoz , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Muñoz; inferred, (Manteca-it) , align=left , J. Munoz , — , - id="O. Muramatsu" , align=left ,

Osamu Muramatsu is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 73 minor planets. He also co-discovered 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, a periodic comet. Muramatsu works at the planeta ...

, 73 , 1949–pres. , , align=left , O. Muramatsu; , align=left , O. Muramatsu , , - id="J. C. Muzzio" , align=left , Juan Carlos Muzzio , 2 , 1946–pres. , , align=left , J. C. Muzzio; at La Plata Institute of Astrophysics, (bio-it) , align=left , J. C. Muzzio , , - id="A. Nakajima" , align=left , Atsushi Nakajima (astronomer) , 15 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Nakajima; disc: , align=left , A. Nakajima , — , - id="A. Nakamura" , align=left , Akimasa Nakamura ,

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, 1961–pres. , , align=left , A. Nakamura; at the Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory , align=left , A. Nakamura , , - id="T. Nakamura" , align=left , Tsuko Nakamura , 3 , 1943–pres. , , align=left , T. Nakamura; (bio-it) , align=left , T. Nakamura , , - id="A. Nakanishi" , align=left , Akio Nakanishi , 3 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , A. Nakanishi; amateur , align=left , A. Nakanishi , , - id="O. A. Naranjo" , align=left , Orlando A. Naranjo , 38 , 1951–pres. , , align=left , O. A. Naranjo; (bio-it) , align=left , O. A. Naranjo , — , - id="M. Nassir" , align=left , Michael Nassir , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Nassir; , align=left , M. Nassir , — , - id="A. Natori" , align=left , Akira Natori , 32 , 1956–pres. , , align=left , A. Natori; at Nihondaira Observatory, (bio-it) , align=left , A. Natori , , - id="E. R. Netto" , align=left , Edgar Rangel Netto , 8 , n.a. , , align=left , E. R. Netto; at Valongo Observatory, (bio-de) , align=left , E. R. Netto , , - id="G. N. Neujmin" , align=left , Grigory Neujmin , 74 , 1885–1946 ,
, align=left , G. N. Neujmin; , align=left , G. N. Neujmin , , - id="V. Nevski" , align=left , Vitali Nevski , 15 , 1974–pres. , , align=left , V. Nevski; amateur, ,

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, Comet ISON, alt: Vitaliy Nevskiy and Vitaly Nevsky , align=left , V. Nevski , — , - id="P. Nicholson" , align=left , Phil Nicholson , , 1951–pres. , , align=left , P. Nicholson; Philip D. Nicholson,

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, align=left , P. Nicholson , , - id="S. B. Nicholson" , align=left , Seth Barnes Nicholson , 2 , 1891–1963 , , align=left , S. B. Nicholson; disc: and , align=left , S. B. Nicholson , , - id="T. Niijima" , align=left ,

Tsuneo Niijima is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 32 numbered minor planets between 1986 and 1996. He also co-discovered 112P/U ...

, 32 , 1955–pres. , , align=left , T. Niijima; amateur , align=left , T. Niijima , , - id="K. Nishiyama" , align=left , Kota Nishiyama , 6 , 1965–pres. , , align=left , K. Nishiyama; Nishiyama Kota,

Bisei Spaceguard Center The Bisei Spaceguard Center (BSGC) is an astronomical observatory located at Bisei-chō, Okayama, Japan. The facility was constructed during 1999–2000, where it since conducts the Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey or , an as ...

, align=left , K. Nishiyama , , - id="V. L. Nixon" , align=left , V. L. Nixon , , n.a. , , align=left , V. L. Nixon; , align=left , V. L. Nixon , — , - id="M. C. Nolan" , align=left , Michael C. Nolan , , 1963–pres. , , align=left , M. C. Nolan; at Arecibo Observatory, (bio-it) , align=left , M. C. Nolan , , - id="J. Nomen" , align=left ,

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 d ...

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, align=left , J. Nomen; at Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca , align=left , J. Nomen , , - id="T. Nomura" , align=left ,

Toshiro Nomura is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 13 asteroids with astronomers Kōyō Kawanishi and Matsuo Sugano is a Japanese astronomer. He has discovered a number of asteroids, including 5881 Akashi (with T. Nomura), 6559 Nomura (with ...

, 13 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , T. Nomura; , align=left , T. Nomura , , - id="H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen" , align=left , Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen; disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , H. U. Norgaard-Nielsen , , - id="A. Novichonok" , align=left ,

Artyom Novichonok Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (russian: Артём Олегович Новичонок; born 27 March 1988 in Kondopoga, Soviet Union (now Russia) is a Russian astronomer. Since 2009, the Minor Planet Center credits him with several minor planets, ...

, 26 , 1988–pres. , , align=left , A. Novichonok; Comet ISON
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, align=left , A. Novichonok; A. O. Novichonok , — , - id="A. J. Noymer" , align=left , Andrew J. Noymer , 7 , 1971–pres. , , align=left , A. J. Noymer; (bio-it) , align=left , A. J. Noymer , , - id="D. O'Ceallaigh" , align=left , Donal O'Ceallaigh , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , D. O'Ceallaigh
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, align=left , D. O'Ceallaigh , — , - id="E. Obermair" , align=left ,

Erwin Obermair Erwin Obermair (29 August 1946 in Hargelsberg – 15 January 2017 in Linz) was an Austrian amateur astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids. Together with his colleague and amateur astronomer Erich Meyer, Obermair built the private observator ...

, 7 , 1946–2017 , , align=left , E. Obermair; amateur , align=left , E. Obermair , , - id="P. v. Oers" , align=left , Pieter van Oers , , n.a. , , align=left , P. v. Oers; , align=left , P. v. Oers , — , - id="E. O. Ofek" , align=left , Eran O. Ofek , , 1972–pres , , align=left , E. O. Ofek
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, align=left , E. O. Ofek , , - id="W. Offutt" , align=left ,

Warren B. Offutt Warren B. Offutt (February 13, 1928 – September 20, 2017) was an American amateur astronomer and amateur radio operator. Offutt is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 17 asteroids and has notably collaborated with professi ...

, 18 , 1928–2017 , , align=left , W. Offutt; , align=left , W. Offutt , , - id="Y. Ohba" , align=left , Youhei Ohba , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , Y. Ohba; at ISAS , align=left , Y. Ohba , — , - id="O. Oikawa" , align=left ,

Okuro Oikawa was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ...

, 8 , 1896–1980 , , align=left , O. Oikawa; , align=left , O. Oikawa , , - id="G. Ojakangas" , align=left , Gregory Wayne Ojakangas , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , G. Ojakangas; disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , G. Ojakangas , — , - id="A. Oksanen" , align=left , Arto Oksanen , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Oksanen; amateur , align=left , A. Oksanen , — , - id="S. Okumura" , align=left , Shin-ichiro Okumura , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , S. Okumura; Bisei SG
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, align=left , S. Okumura , — , - id="T. Okuni" , align=left , Tomimaru Okuni ,

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, 1931–pres. , , align=left , T. Okuni; amateur , align=left , T. Okuni , , - id="H. W. Olbers" , align=left , Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers , 2 , 1758–1840 , , align=left , H. W. Olbers; , align=left , H. W. Olbers , , - id="R. M. Olivera" , align=left , R. M. Olivera , 3 , n.a. ,
, align=left , R. M. Olivera; amateur, also see , align=left , R. M. Olivera , — , - id="C. M. Olmstead" , align=left ,

C. Michelle Olmstead C. Michelle Olmstead (born 21 May 1969) is an American astronomer, asteroid discoverer and computer scientist. Early life and education Olmstead attended Northern Arizona University as an undergraduate student in physics and astronomy from 1989 ...

, 46 , 1969–pres. , , align=left , C. M. Olmstead; at Lowell Observatory , align=left , C. M. Olmstead , , - id="A. Oreshko" , align=left , Andrey Oreshko , 41 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Oreshko; (also see Timur Kryachko and , align=left , A. Oreshko , — , - id="C. Orgel" , align=left , Csilla Orgel , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , C. Orgel; inferred , align=left , C. Orgel , — , - id="J. L. Ortiz" , align=left ,

José Luis Ortiz Moreno José Luis Ortiz Moreno (born 1967) is a Spanish astronomer, and former Vicedirector 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 Granad ...

, 2 , 1967–pres. , , align=left , J. L. Ortiz; disc: , unofficial discoverer , align=left , J. L. Ortiz , , - id="M. Ory" , align=left , Michel Ory ,

251 __NOTOC__ Year 251 ( CCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Etruscus (or, less frequently, year 1004 ' ...

, 1966–pres. , , align=left , M. Ory; amateur , align=left , M. Ory , , - id="Y. Oshima" , align=left , Yoshiaki Oshima , 61 , 1952–pres. , , align=left , Y. Oshima; at Gekko Observatory , align=left , Y. Oshima , , - id="P. Ostafijchuk" , align=left , P. Ostafijchuk , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , P. Ostafijchuk; Andrushivka Observatory , align=left , P. Ostafijchuk , — , - id="L. Oterma" , align=left ,

Liisi Oterma Liisi Oterma (; 6 January 1915 – 4 April 2001) was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland. She studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Turku, and soon became Yrjö Väisälä's as ...

, 54 , 1915–2001 , , align=left , L. Oterma; at Turku Observatory , align=left , L. Oterma , , - id="S. Otomo" , align=left ,

Satoru Otomo is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. According to the Minor Planet Center, he is credited with the discovery of 148 asteroids between 1991 and 1997, 15 of which were co-discoveries with Osamu Muramatsu. As ...

148 148 may refer to: *148 (number), a natural number *AD 148, a year in the 2nd century AD *148 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC *148 (album), an album by C418 *148 (Meiktila) Battery Royal Artillery *148 (New Jersey bus) 148 may refer to: *148 (numb ...

, 1957–pres. , , align=left , S. Otomo; amateur , align=left , S. Otomo , , - id="R. Pacheco" , align=left ,

Rafael Pacheco Rafael Pacheco Hernández (born 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish astronomer of Catalan origin and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of numerous minor planets mostly in collaboration with astrono ...

, 57 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , R. Pacheco; amateur , align=left , R. Pacheco , , - id="D. Padgett" , align=left , Deborah Lynne Padgett , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Padgett; inferred , align=left , D. Padgett , — , - id="A. Pal" , align=left , András Pál (astronomer) , 8 , 1981–pres. , , align=left , A. Pál; , align=left , A. Pal , , - id="J. Palisa" , align=left ,

Johann Palisa Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gel ...

122 122 may refer to: *122 (number), a natural number * AD 122, a year in the 2nd century AD * 122 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC * ''122'' (film), a 2019 Egyptian psychological horror film *"One Twenty Two", a 2022 single by the American rock band Bo ...

, 1848–1925 , , align=left , J. Palisa; , align=left , J. Palisa , , - id="E. Palomba" , align=left , Ernesto Palomba , 2 , 1967–pres. , , align=left , E. Palomba; disc: and , align=left , E. Palomba , , - id="A. Papadimos" , align=left , Amanda Papadimos , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Papadimos; inferred , align=left , A. Papadimos , — , - id="S. Pastor" , align=left , Sensi Pastor , , n.a. , , align=left , S. Pastor; La Murta Observatory , align=left , S. Pastor , — , - id="P. Parchomenko" , align=left , Praskov'ja Georgievna Parchomenko , 2 , 1886–1970 ,
, align=left , P. Parchomenko; Praskoviya Georgievna Parchomenko, (bio-it) , align=left , P. Parchomenko , , - id="Y.-H. Park" , align=left , Yun-Ho Park , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , Y.-H. Park; (bio-it) , align=left , Y.-H. Park , , - id="J. W. Parker" , align=left , Joel W. Parker , 3 , 1962–pres. , , align=left , J. W. Parker; at Southwest Research Institute, inferred , align=left , J. W. Parker , , - id="Q. A. Parker" , align=left , Quentin A. Parker , , n.a. , , align=left , Q. A. Parker; Quentin Andrew Parker, Siding Spring, disc.: comet 119P/Parker–Hartleybr>Src
, align=left , Q. A. Parker , – , - id="A. Paroubek" , align=left , Alois Paroubek , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Paroubek; (bio-it) , align=left , A. Paroubek , — , - id="A. Patry" , align=left ,

André Patry André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s. Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. H ...

, 9 , 1902–1967 , , align=left , A. Patry; at Nice Observatory , align=left , A. Patry , , - id="T. Pauwels" , align=left , Thierry Pauwels ,

152 Year 152 ( CLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Glabrio and Homullus (or, less frequently, year 905 ''Ab urbe condita'' ...

, 1957–pres. , , align=left , T. Pauwels; at Uccle Observatory , align=left , T. Pauwels , , - id="T. Payer" , align=left , Thomas Payer , 4 , 1978–pres. , , align=left , T. Payer; amateur, , align=left , T. Payer , — , - id="F. Pedichini" , align=left ,

Fernando Pedichini Fernando Pedichini is an Italian astronomer at the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and discoverer of an asteroid. In 1996, he co-discovered the main-belt asteroid together with Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini at the Campo Imper ...

, , n.a. , , align=left , F. Pedichini; , align=left , F. Pedichini , — , - id="J. C. Pelle" , align=left , Jean-Claude Pelle , 10 , 1942–pres. , , align=left , J.-C. Pelle; Jean Claude George Pelle, amateur, (bio-fr) , align=left , J. C. Pelle , , - id="R. Pepper" , align=left , Randy Pepper , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Pepper; amateur, Fort Bend Astronomy Club, (bio-it) , align=left , R. Pepper , — , - id="Z. Pereyra" , align=left , Zenón M. Pereyra , , n.a. , , align=left , Z. Pereyra; disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , Z. Pereyra , — , - id="D. Perna" , align=left , Davide Perna , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , D. Perna; , align=left , D. Perna , — , - id="B. Pernier" , align=left , Bernard Pernier , , n.a. , , align=left , B. Pernier
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, align=left , B. Pernier , — , - id="J. Perrotin" , align=left ,

Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (December 19, 1845 – February 29, 1904) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. Some sources give his middle name as Athanase. In his early career, he and Guillaume Bigourdan were assis ...

, 6 , 1845–1904 , , align=left , J. Perrotin; , align=left , J. Perrotin , , - id="C. H. F. Peters" , align=left , Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters , 48 , 1813–1890 ,
, align=left , C. H. F. Peters; , align=left , C. H. F. Peters , , - id="G. H. Peters" , align=left ,

George Henry Peters George Henry Peters (1863–October 18, 1947) was a US astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory as an astrophotographer, discovering three asteroids and photographing the Sun's corona Corona (fro ...

, 3 , 1863–1947 , , align=left , G. H. Peters; USNO-astronome
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, align=left , G. H. Peters , — , - id="J.-M. Petit" , align=left , Jean-Marc Petit , 7 , 1961–pres. , , align=left , J.-M. Petit; (bio-fr) , align=left , J.-M. Petit; J. Petit , , - id="H. Phaneuf" , align=left , Holly Phaneuf , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , H. Phaneuf; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , H. Phaneuf , — , - id="J. Phinney" , align=left , Jeffrey L. Phinney , 4 , 1957–pres. , , align=left , J. Phinney; disc: , , and , align=left , J. Phinney , , - id="G. Piazzi" , align=left , Giuseppe Piazzi , 1 , 1746–1826 , , align=left , G. Piazzi; disc: , align=left , G. Piazzi , , - id="P. Pietrapiana" , align=left , Paolo Pietrapiana , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , P. Pietrapriana; amateur, disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , P. Pietrapiana , — , - id="M. Pietschnig" , align=left , Michael Pietschnig , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , M. Pietschnig; amateur
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, align=left , M. Pietschnig , — , - id="G. Pignata" , align=left , Giuliano Pignata , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , G. Pignata; ADAS , align=left , G. Pignata , — , - id="J. Pittichova" , align=left , Jana Pittichová , 9 , 1972–pres. , , align=left , J. Pittichová; inferred , align=left , J. Pittichova , , - id="G. Pizarro" , align=left , Guido Pizarro (astronomer) , 8 , n.a. , , align=left , G. Pizarro; brother of Oscar Pizarro, at La Silla, (bio-it) , align=left , G. Pizarro , , - id="O. Pizarro" , align=left , Oscar Pizarro , , n.a. , , align=left , O. Pizarro; brother of Guido Pizarro, (bio-it) , align=left , O. Pizarro , , - id="G. P. Pizzetti" , align=left , Gianpaolo Pizzetti , 4 , 1961–pres. , , align=left , G. P. Pizzetti; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , G. P. Pizzetti; G. Pizzetti , , - id="J. Platt" , align=left ,

John Platt (computer scientist) John Carlton Platt (born 1963) is an American computer scientist. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist at Google. Formerly he was a Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Redmond Labs. Platt worked for Microsoft from 1997 to 2015. Be ...

, 2 , 1963–pres. , , align=left , J. Platt; , align=left , J. Platt , , - id="C. E. Plunkett" , align=left , C. E. Plunkett , , n.a. , , align=left , C. E. Plunkett; inferred , align=left , C. E. Plunkett , — , - id="G. A. Plyugin" , align=left , G. A. Plyugin , 7 , 1925–pres. , , align=left , G. A. Plyugin; Gurij Antonovič Pljugin, (bio-it) , align=left , G. A. Plyugin , — , - id="R. Podstanicka" , align=left , Regina Podstanická , , 1928–2000 , , align=left , R. Podstanická; (bio-it) , align=left , R. Podstanicka , — , - id="N. R. Pogson" , align=left , N. R. Pogson , 8 , 1829–1891 , , align=left , N. R. Pogson; Norman Robert Pogson , align=left , N. R. Pogson , , - id="R. Poleski" , align=left , Radosław Poleski , , n.a. , , align=left , R. Poleski; , align=left , R. Poleski , — , - id="D. Polishook" , align=left , David Polishook , 16 , 1976–pres. , , align=left , D. Polishook; David L. Polishook, MIT and Tel Aviv University, (bio-it) , align=left , D. Polishook , , - id="I. Polit" , align=left , Isidre Pòlit , , 1880–1958 ,
, align=left , I. Pòlit; Isidre Pòlit i Boixareu, (bio-it) , align=left , I. Polit , , - id="C. Pollas" , align=left ,

Christian Pollas Christian Pollas (b. 1947) is a French astronomer, known for the discovery and observation of minor planets and supernovae. Pollas is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 26 asteroids, some co-discovered with Eric W. Elst, ...

, 26 , 1947–pres. , , align=left , C. Pollas; at Côte d'Azur Observatory, (bio-fr) , align=left , C. Pollas , , - id="K. Polyakov" , align=left , K. Polyakov , , n.a. , , align=left , K. Polyakov; co-disc. #V. Linkov , align=left , K. Polyakov , — , - id="H. Potter" , align=left , Hejno Iogannović Potter , 1 , 1929–2007 , , align=left , H. Potter; Kheino Potter, disc: , (bio-it) , align=left , H. Potter , , - id="F. Pozo" , align=left , Francisco Pozo , , 1986–pres. , , align=left , F. Pozo; Francisco Javier Pozo Núñez, (bio-es), , align=left , F. Pozo , — , - id="V. Pozzoli" , align=left , Valentino Pozzoli , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , V. Pozzoli; inferred , align=left , V. Pozzoli , — , - id="A. Pravda" , align=left , Alexander Pravda , 52 , 1961–pres. , , align=left , A. Pravda; (bio-it) , align=left , A. Pravda , , - id="P. Pravec" , align=left , Petr Pravec ,

355 __NOTOC__ Year 355 ( CCCLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Arbitio and Maesius (or, less frequently, year 1108 '' Ab ...

, 1967–pres. , , align=left , P. Pravec; , align=left , P. Pravec , , - id="D. P. Pray" , align=left , Donald P. Pray , 3 , 1949–pres. , , align=left , D. P. Pray; at Carbuncle Hill Ob
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(bio-it) , align=left , D. P. Pray , , - id="G. Proffe" , align=left , Gerrit Proffe , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , G. Proffe; DLR inferred , align=left , G. Proffe , — , - id="E. Prosperi" , align=left , Enrico Prosperi , , 1954–pres. , , align=left , E. Prosperi; Castelmartini Obs. , align=left , E. Prosperi , , - id="S. Prosperi" , align=left , S. Prosperi , , n.a. , , align=left , S. Prosperi; , align=left , S. Prosperi , – , - id="M. B. Protitch" , align=left ,

Milorad B. Protić Milorad B. Protić ( sr-cyr, italic=yes, Милорад Б. Протић; 19 September 1911, Belgrade – 29 October 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, and three times director of the Belgrade Obser ...

, 7 , 1911–2001 , , align=left , M. B. Protić; , align=left , M. B. Protitch , , - id="T. Prusti" , align=left , Timo Prusti , 10 , n.a. , , align=left , T. Prusti; ESA-Gaia, first disc: , align=left , T. Prusti , — , - id="A. W. Puckett" , align=left , Andrew W. Puckett , 22 , 1977–pres. , , align=left , A. W. Puckett; Andrew Wayne Puckett , align=left , A. W. Puckett , , - id="U. Quadri" , align=left , Ulisse Quadri , , 1953–pres. , , align=left , U. Quadri; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , U. Quadri , , - id="H. Raab" , align=left , Herbert Raab , , 1969–pres. , , align=left , H. Raab; amateur
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, align=left , H. Raab , , - id="D. L. Rabinowitz" , align=left , David L. Rabinowitz , 36 , 1960–pres. , , align=left , D. L. Rabinowitz; , align=left , D. L. Rabinowitz; D. Rabinowitz , , - id="P. Radovan" , align=left , Petar Radovan , , n.a. , , align=left , P. Radovan; (bio-it) , align=left , P. Radovan , — , - id="R. Rajamohan" , align=left , Rajgopalan Rajamohan , 6 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Rajamohan; (bio-it) , align=left , R. Rajamohan , — , - id="D. Rankin" , align=left , David Rankin (astronomer) , 1 , 1984–pres. , , align=left , D. Rankin; amateur , align=left , D. Rankin , , - id="V. Reddy" , align=left , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy , 23 , 1978–pres. , , align=left , V. Reddy; (bio-it) , align=left , V. Reddy , , - id="K. Reinmuth" , align=left , Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ,

395 __NOTOC__ Year 395 ( CCCXCV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius and Probinus (or, less frequently, year 1148 ...

, 1892–1979 , , align=left , K. Reinmuth; , align=left , K. Reinmuth , , - id="G. Reiss" , align=left ,

Guy Reiss Guy Reiss (1904–1964) was a French astronomer and discoverer of five asteroids, who worked at the Algiers Observatory in Algiers, North Africa, during the 1930s and later at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. Among his discoveries ma ...

, 5 , 1904–1964 , , align=left , G. Reiss; at Algiers Observatory and Nice , align=left , G. Reiss , , - id="J. A. Reyes" , align=left , José Antonio Reyes (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , J. A. Reyes; La Murta Observatory , align=left , J. A. Reyes , — , - id="T. Rezek" , align=left , Tomáš Rezek (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , T. Rezek; inferred , align=left , T. Rezek , — , - id="J. Rheden" , align=left ,

Joseph Rheden Joseph Rheden (5 April 1873 – 6 August 1946) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Amlach, East Tyrol, known for his astrographic observations of planets, minor planets and comets, and for the asteroids 744 Aguntina, 771 Libera, and 844 Leont ...

, 3 , 1873–1946 , , align=left , J. Rheden; , align=left , J. Rheden , — , - id="H. Rickman" , align=left , Hans Rickman , 2 , 1949–pres. , , align=left , H. Rickman; at Uppsala Observatory, (bio-it) , align=left , H. Rickman , , - id="J. G. Ries" , align=left , Judit Györgyey Ries , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , J. G. Ries
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Wolfgang Ries Wolfgang Ries (born 1968) is an Austrian amateur astronomer, astrophotographer and discoverer of minor planets. Ries has his own private observatory at Altschwendt in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The Minor Planet Center credits him with ...

176 Year 176 ( CLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Aper (or, less frequently, year 929 '' Ab urbe condita'') ...

, 1968–pres. , , align=left , W. Ries; amateur , align=left , W. Ries , , - id="J. Riffle" , align=left , Jim Riffle , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Riffle; inferred , align=left , J. Riffle , — , - id="F. Rigaux" , align=left ,

Fernand Rigaux Fernand Rigaux (1905 – 21 September 1962) was a Belgian astronomer and observer of variable stars, minor planets and comets at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium. In 1951, he co-discovered the periodic comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux with his c ...

, 8 , 1905–1962 , , align=left , F. Rigaux; at Uccle Observatory , align=left , F. Rigaux , , - id="C. Rinner" , align=left , Claudine Rinner ,

, 1965–pres. , , align=left , C. Rinner; amateur, at Ottmarsheim Observatory , align=left , C. Rinner , , - id="K. Rivich" , align=left , Keith Rivich , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , K. Rivich; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , K. Rivich , — , - id="I. Robbins" , align=left , Irving Robbins (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , I. Robbins
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, align=left , I. Robbins , , - id="A. Robbins" , align=left , Adrienne M. Robbins , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Robbins; Adrienne Makita Robbins, (bio-it) , align=left , A. Robbins , , - id="L. Robinson" , align=left , Larry Robinson (astronomer) , 18 , n.a. , , align=left , L. Robinson; amateur, at Sunflower Observatory, (bio-it) , align=left , L. Robinson , , - id="H. Roclawski" , align=left , Heiner Roclawski , , 1963–pres. , , align=left , H. Roclawski; , align=left , H. Roclawski , — , - id="G. Rodgers" , align=left , Greg Rodgers , , n.a. , , align=left , G. Rodgers; , align=left , G. Rodgers , — , - id="T. Rodriquez" , align=left , Tim A. Rodriquez , , n.a. , , align=left , T. Rodriquez; (bio-it) , align=left , T. Rodriquez , — , - id="H. G. Roe" , align=left , Henry G. Roe , , 1975–pres. , , align=left , H. G. Roe; (bio-it) , align=left , H. G. Roe , , - id="J. M. Roe" , align=left , James M. Roe ,

102 102 may refer to: * 102 (number), the number * AD 102, a year in the 2nd century AD * 102 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC * 102 (ambulance service), an emergency medical transport service in Uttar Pradesh, India * 102 (Clyde) Field Squadron, Royal ...

, 1943–pres. , , align=left , J. M. Roe; (bio-it) , align=left , J. M. Roe , — , - id="E. Roemer" , align=left , Elizabeth Roemer , 2 , 1929–2016 , , align=left , E. Roemer; , align=left , E. Roemer , , - id="J. E. Rogers" , align=left , John E. Rogers , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , J. E. Rogers; (bio-it) , align=left , J. E. Rogers , , - id="B. Roman" , align=left ,

Brian P. Roman Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer. He has co-discovered the periodic comets 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett, 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu and 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu. Brian Roman is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discove ...

, 11 , n.a. , , align=left , B. Roman; , align=left , B. Roman , , - id="E. S. Romas" , align=left , E. S. Romas , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , E. S. Romas; first disc: ; at Kislovodsk Stn. (C20) , align=left , E. S. Romas , — , - id="A. E. Rose" , align=left , Amy E. Rose , 2 , 1987–pres. , , align=left , A. E. Rose; , align=left , A. E. Rose , , - id="P. Rose" , align=left , Perry Rose (astronomer) , 4 , 1966–pres. , , align=left , P. Rose; Perry J. Rose, at Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey , align=left , P. Rose , , - id="E. Ross" , align=left , Emily Ross , , n.a. , , align=left , E. Ross; inferred; with Tara Houlden , align=left , E. Ross , — , - id="R. Roy" , align=left , René Roy (astronomer) , 9 , 1938–pres. , , align=left , R. Roy; amateur, (bio-fr) , align=left , R. Roy , , - id="J. Ruan" , align=left , Jiangao Ruan , 2 , 1986–pres. , , align=left , J. Ruan; (阮建高), Ruan Jiangao; amateur, co-discovery with

Gao Xing Gao Xing (; born 1974) is a Chinese amateur astronomer from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. (Astronomers name: Gaoxing) He built Xingming Observatory (星明天文台) in 2006 and discovered Comet C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao) on February 1, 2008 with Chen T ...

, supernovae, novae, C/2009 G1 (STEREO), 80+ SOHO comets , align=left , J. Ruan , , - id="E. P. Rubenstein" , align=left , Eric P. Rubenstein , , n.a. , , align=left , E. P. Rubenstein; , align=left , E. P. Rubenstein , — , - id="A. Rudd" , align=left , A. Rudd , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Rudd; disc: and , align=left , A. Rudd , — , - id="M. Rudnyk" , align=left , Marian Rudnyk , 3 , n.a. ,
, align=left , M. Rudnyk; (bio-it) , align=left , M. Rudnyk , — , - id="D. Rudy" , align=left , Donald James Rudy , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Rudy; (bio-it) , align=left , D. Rudy , — , - id="J. M. Ruiz" , align=left , Jose Maria Ruiz , 9 , n.a. , , align=left , J. M. Ruiz; inferred, disc: , align=left , J. M. Ruiz , — , - id="V. Rumyantsev" , align=left , Vasilij Rumyantsev , , n.a. , , align=left , V. Rumyantsev; , align=left , V. Rumyantsev , — , - id="K. S. Russell" , align=left , Kenneth S. Russell , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , K. S. Russell; (bio-it) , align=left , K. S. Russell , , - id="J. Ruthroff" , align=left , John Ruthroff , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Ruthroff; (bio-it) , align=left , J. Ruthroff , — , - id="E. L. Ryan" , align=left , Erin Lee Ryan , 9 , n.a. , , align=left , E. L. Ryan
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(547073) and (548758) , align=left , E. L. Ryan , — , - id="W. H. Ryan" , align=left , William H. Ryan (astronomer) , 28 , 1962–pres. , , align=left , W. H. Ryan; at MRO, (bio-it) , align=left , W. H. Ryan;W. Ryan , , - id="E. V. Ryan" , align=left , Eileen V. Ryan , , 1960–pres. , , align=left , E. V. Ryan; wife and collaborator of William Ryan at MRO
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, align=left , E. V. Ryan , , - id="J. Sachs" , align=left , John Sachs (astronomer) , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Sachs; amateur, disc and
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unrelated to , align=left , J. Sachs , — , - id="T. Sakamoto" , align=left , Tsuyoshi Sakamoto , 11 , 1975–pres. , , align=left , T. Sakamoto; Bisei Spaceguard Center, first disc: , align=left , T. Sakamoto , , - id="G. A. Sala" , align=left , Giuseppe A. Sala , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , G. A. Sala; disc: and , align=left , G. A. Sala , — , - id="P. Sala" , align=left , Paolo Sala (astronomer) , 3 , 1954–pres. ,
, align=left , P. Sala; amateur, disc: , and , , align=left , P. Sala , — , - id="G. Sallit" , align=left , George C. Sallit , , n.a. , , align=left , G. Sallit; (bio-it) , align=left , G. Sallit , — , - id="S. L. Salyards" , align=left , Stephen L. Salyards , , n.a. , , align=left , S. L. Salyards; (bio-it) , align=left , S. L. Salyards , — , - id="A. G. Samuel" , align=left , A. G. Samuel , , n.a. , , align=left , A. G. Samuel; (bio-it) , align=left , A. G. Samuel , — , - id="S. Sanchez" , align=left , Salvador Sánchez (astronomer) , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , S. Sánchez; unrelated to , (bio-it) , align=left , S. Sanchez , — , - id="A. R. Sandage" , align=left , Allan Sandage , , 1926–2010 , , align=left , A. R. Sandage; , align=left , A. R. Sandage , , - id="H.-U. Sandig" , align=left , Hans-Ullrich Sandig , , 1909–1979 , , align=left , H.-U. Sandig; (bio-de) , align=left , H.-U. Sandig , — , - id="R. G. Sandness" , align=left , Robert G. Sandness , 6 , n.a. , , align=left , R. G. Sandness; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , R. G. Sandness , — , - id="L. Sannino" , align=left ,

Luigi Sannino Luigi Sannino (born 1981) is an Italian amateur astronomer. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astrono ...

, 2 , 1981–pres. , , align=left , L. Sannino; amateur, disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , L. Sannino , , - id="M. M. M. Santangelo" , align=left , Matteo M. M. Santangelo , 21 , n.a. , , align=left , M. M. M. Santangelo; Matteo Santangelo, (bio-it) , align=left , M. M. M. Santangelo , — , - id="P. Santos-Sanz" , align=left , Pablo Santos-Sanz , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , P. Santos-Sanz; , align=left , P. Santos-Sanz , — , - id="K. Sarneczky" , align=left ,

Krisztián Sárneczky Krisztián Sárneczky (born 6 November 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian teacher of geography and prolific discoverer of minor planets and supernovae, researching at Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary. He is a board member o ...

627 __NOTOC__ Year 627 ( DCXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 627 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Eur ...

, 1974–pres. , , align=left , K. Sárneczky; , align=left , K. Sarneczky , , - id="L. Sarounova" , align=left ,

Lenka Kotková Lenka Kotková ('' née'' Šarounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. She works at Observatoř Ondřejov (Ondřejov Observatory), located near Prague. Besides numerous main-belt asteroids she also ...

262 __NOTOC__ Year 262 (Roman numerals, CCLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gallienus and Faustianus (or, less fre ...

, 1973–pres. , , align=left , L. Kotková; Lenka Šarounová (née), at Ondřejov Observatory , align=left , L. Sarounova , , - id="G. Sasaki" , align=left , Goro Sasaki , , n.a. , , align=left , G. Sasaki; unrelated to , (bio-it) , align=left , G. Sasaki , — , - id="I. Sato" , align=left , Isao Satō (astronomer) , 9 , 1963–pres. , , align=left , I. Satō; asteroid occultation, (bio-it) , align=left , I. Sato , , - id="N. Sato" , align=left ,

Naoto Satō is a Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and, by profession, a junior high school science teacher. As a planetarian, a member of the professional staff of a planetarium, he has done much for the spread of astronomy in Japan ...

142 142 may refer to: * 142 (number), an integer * AD 142 Year 142 ( CXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consul ...

, 1953–pres. , , align=left , N. Satō; amateur , align=left , N. Sato , , - id="B. Satovski" , align=left , Boris Satovski , 42 , n.a. , , align=left , B. Satovski; discovered , different from , align=left , B. Satovski , — , - id="P. Sava" , align=left , Paul Sava , , n.a. , , align=left , P. Sava; at Needville , align=left , P. Sava , — , - id="G. Scarfi" , align=left , Giulio Scarfì , , 1964–pres. , , align=left , G. Scarfì; amateu
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observatories: (126) and (K78) , align=left , G. Scarfi , , - id="R. D. Schaldach" , align=left , Robert D. Schaldach , , n.a. , , align=left , R. D. Schaldach; co-discovered

61P/Shajn–Schaldach 61P/Shajn–Schaldach is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.49 years. It was discovered on 18 September 1949 on a photographic plate by Pelageja F. Shajn at the Simeiz Observatory, Crimea, part of the Cri ...

; (bio-fr) , align=left , R. D. Schaldach , — , - id="A. Schaumasse" , align=left ,

Alexandre Schaumasse Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958) was a French astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets. His discoveries include the periodic comet 24P/Schaumasse, and the two non-periodic comets C/1913 J1 (Schaumasse) or 1913 II, and C/1917 H1 (S ...

, 2 , 1882–1958 , , align=left , A. Schaumasse; , align=left , A. Schaumasse , , - id="G. Schiaparelli" , align=left , Giovanni Schiaparelli , 1 , 1835–1910 , , align=left , G. Schiaparelli; disc: , align=left , G. Schiaparelli , , - id="C. J. Schiff" , align=left , Christine J. Schiff , , n.a. , , align=left , C. J. Schiff; amateur, wife of J. L. Schiff, (bio-it) , align=left , C. J. Schiff , — , - id="J. L. Schiff" , align=left , Joel L. Schiff , , n.a. , , align=left , J. L. Schiff; amateur, husband of C. J. Schiff, unrelated to , (bio-it) , align=left , J. L. Schiff , — , - id="T. Schildknecht" , align=left , Thomas Schildknecht , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , T. Schildknecht; (bio-it)
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, align=left , T. Schildknecht , — , - id="F. Schiralli Jr." , align=left , Frank Schiralli Jr. , , n.a. , , align=left , F. Schiralli Jr.
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Lutz D. Schmadel Lutz Dieter Schmadel (2 July 1942, in Berlin – 21 October 2016) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) of the University of Heidelberg. His special interest was th ...

245 __NOTOC__ Year 245 ( CCXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Titianus (or, less frequently, year 998 ' ...

, 1942–2016 , , align=left , L. D. Schmadel; ARI-astronomer , align=left , L. D. Schmadel; L.D. Schmadel , , - id="B. Schmidt" , align=left ,

Brian Schmidt Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mo ...

, 1 , 1967–pres. , , align=left , B. Schmidt; w/ High-Z Supernova Search Team , align=left , B. Schmidt; Schmidt, B., the High-Z team , , - id="A. Schmitt" , align=left , Alfred Schmitt , 4 , 1907–1973 , , align=left , A. Schmitt; at Algiers and Strasbourg observatories , align=left , A. Schmitt , , - id="H. Scholl" , align=left , Hans Scholl (astronomer) , 56 , 1942–pres. , , align=left , H. Scholl; ARI-astronomer , align=left , H. Scholl , , - id="R. Schorr" , align=left , Richard Schorr , 2 , 1867–1951 , , align=left , R. Schorr; , align=left , R. Schorr , , - id="M. Schroedter" , align=left , Martin Schroedter , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Schroedter; VERITAS , align=left , M. Schroedter , — , - id="J. Schubart" , align=left , Joachim Schubart , 2 , 1928–pres. , , align=left , J. Schubart; (bio-de)
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, align=left , J. Schubart , , - id="L. Schulhof" , align=left , Lipót Schulhof , 1 , 1847–1921 , , align=left , L. Schulhof; , align=left , L. Schulhof , , - id="H.-E. Schuster" , align=left ,

Hans-Emil Schuster Hans-Emil Schuster (born September 19, 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory (ESO), and ...

, 25 , 1934–pres. , , align=left , H.-E. Schuster; at La Silla , align=left , H.-E. Schuster , , - id="E. Schwab" , align=left ,

Erwin Schwab Erwin Schwab (born 1964) is a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, who works at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, near Darmstadt, Germany.98 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , E. Schwab; amateur , align=left , E. Schwab , , - id="M. E. Schwamb" , align=left ,

Megan Schwamb Megan E. Schwamb (born 1984) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Schwamb has discovered and co-discovered several trans-Neptunian objects, and is involved with Citizen science projects s ...

, 16 , 1984–pres. , , align=left , M. E. Schwamb; (bio-fr) , align=left , M. E. Schwamb; M. Schwamb , , - id="M. Schwartz" , align=left , Michael B. Schwartz ,

254 Year 254 ( CCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerianus and Gallienus (or, less frequently, year 1007 '' Ab urbe ...

, 1950–pres. , , align=left , M. Schwartz; amateur, at Tenagra Observatory, (bio-it) , align=left , M. Schwartz , , - id="A. Schwassmann" , align=left ,

Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (25 March 1870 – 19 January 1964) was a German astronomer and a discoverer of 22 minor planets and 4 comets, who worked at AOP in Potsdam and at Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg. He was co-discoverer with Arn ...

, 22 , 1870–1964 , , align=left , A. Schwassmann; , align=left , A. Schwassmann , , - id="J. V. Scotti" , align=left ,

James V. Scotti James Vernon Scotti (born 1960) is an American astronomer. He was born in Bandon, Oregon and graduated from Edmonds Woodway High School in Edmonds, Washington in 1978. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson, ...

, 1 , 1960–pres. , , align=left , J. V. Scotti; at Spacewatch , align=left , J. V. Scotti , , - id="G. Searle" , align=left ,

George Mary Searle George Mary Searle (June 27, 1839 – July 7, 1918) was an American astronomer and Catholic priest. Biography He discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora in 1858. He also discovered six galaxies. In later life he became a member of the Paulist o ...

, 1 , 1839–1918 , , align=left , G. Searle; disc: , align=left , G. Searle , — , - id="W. Sebok" , align=left , William Lawrence Sebok , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , W. Sebok; disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , W. Sebok , — , - id="B. A. Segal" , align=left , Bruce A. Segal , 2 , 1959–pres. , , align=left , B. A. Segal; amateur, disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , B. A. Segal , , - id="C. Segarra" , align=left , Carlos Segarra , , n.a. , , align=left , C. Segarra; Algimia-Valencia , align=left , C. Segarra , — , - id="S. Sei" , align=left , Sadao Sei , , n.a. , , align=left , S. Sei; at Chirorin Observatory , align=left , S. Sei , — , - id="N. Samarasinha" , align=left ,

Nalin Samarasinha Nalin H. Samarasinha (born 1958) is a Sri Lankan born planetary scientist and a discoverer of minor planets, who studies the dynamical evolution and processes of cometary nuclei and comae. Currently, he works as a senior scientist for the Plane ...

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, align=left , N. Samarasinha; , align=left , N. Samarasinha , , - id="T. Seki" , align=left ,

Tsutomu Seki is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, born in Kōchi, Japan. Career Tsutomu Seki is the Director of the Geisei Observatory in Kōchi, and in charge of the Comet Section of the Oriental Astronomical Association. ...

225 __NOTOC__ Year 225 ( CCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscus and Domitius (or, less frequently, year 978 ''Ab ...

, 1930–pres. , , align=left , T. Seki; , align=left , T. Seki , , - id="A. Sergeev" , align=left , Alexey V. Sergeyev , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Sergeyev; inferred , align=left , A. Sergeev , — , - id="C. Sexton" , align=left , Carl Sexton , 9 , n.a. , , align=left , C. Sexton; inferred, amateur , align=left , C. Sexton , — , - id="G. Shajn" , align=left ,

Grigory Shajn Grigory Abramovich Shajn (russian: Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical d ...

, 3 , 1892–1956 ,
, align=left , G. Shajn; , align=left , G. Shajn , , - id="P. F. Shajn" , align=left , Pelageya Shajn , 19 , 1894–1956 ,
, align=left , P. F. Shajn; , align=left , P. F. Shajn , , , - id="R. Shank" , align=left , R. Shank , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Shank; assumed, also R. Shanks (!), co-discoveries with C. Veillet , align=left , R. Shank; R. Shanks , , - id="S. S. Sheppard" , align=left , Scott S. Sheppard , 27 , 1977–pres. , , align=left , S. S. Sheppard; , align=left , S. S. Sheppard; S. Sheppard , , - id="E. E. Sheridan" , align=left , Edwin E. Sheridan , 38 , n.a. , , align=left , E. E. Sheridan; (bio-it) , align=left , E. E. Sheridan; E. Sheridan; E. Sherdian , — , - id="C.-Y. Shih" , align=left , Jia You Shih , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , C.-Y. Shih; disc: , and , align=left , C.-Y. Shih , , - id="Y. Shimizu" , align=left ,

Yoshisada Shimizu is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as an astrophotographer. The central main-belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in ...

311 311 may refer to: * 311 (number), a natural number * AD 311, a year of the Julian calendar, in the fourth century AD * 311 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar * 311 (band), an American band ** ''311'' (album), band 311's self-titled album ...

, 1943–pres. , , align=left , Y. Shimizu; amateur , align=left , Y. Shimizu , , - id="H. Shiozawa" , align=left , Hitoshi Shiozawa , 29 , n.a. , , align=left , H. Shiozawa; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , H. Shiozawa , — , - id="S. Shirai" , align=left , Seiji Shirai (astronomer) , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , S. Shirai; , , , align=left , S. Shirai , , - id="V. G. Shkodrov" , align=left ,

Vladimir Shkodrov Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov (Владимир Георгиев Шкодров; 10 February 1930 – 31 August 2010) was a Bulgarian astronomer and professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is one of the founders of the Bulgarian National ...

, 7 , 1930–2010 , , align=left , V. G. Shkodrov; at the Bulgarian National Observatory , align=left , V. G. Shkodrov; V. Shkodrov , , - id="C. S. Shoemaker" , align=left ,

Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She discovered 32 comets (then a record for the most by an individual) and more than 500 astero ...

377 __NOTOC__ Year 377 ( CCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Merobaudes (or, less frequently, year 11 ...

, 1929–2021 , , align=left , C. S. Shoemaker; , align=left , C. S. Shoemaker , , - id="E. M. Shoemaker" , align=left ,

Eugene M. Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televise ...

183 Year 183 ( CLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Victorinus (or, less frequently, year 936 ''Ab urbe ...

, 1928–1997 , , align=left , E. M. Shoemaker; , align=left , E. M. Shoemaker , , - id="S. Shurpakov" , align=left , Sergey E. Shurpakov , 2 , 1966–pres. , , align=left , S. Shurpakov; Sergey Eduardovich Shurpakov, amateur , align=left , S. Shurpakov , , - id="P. Sicoli" , align=left ,

Piero Sicoli Piero Sicoli (born 1954) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, observing at the Italian Sormano Astronomical Observatory. As the observatory's coordinator, he is responsible for close encounters computation of near-Earth objec ...

, 43 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , P. Sicoli; amateur, at Sormano Observatory , align=left , P. Sicoli , , - id="S. Singer-Brewster" , align=left ,

Stephen Singer-Brewster Stephen C. Singer-Brewster (b. 1945) also known as Stephen C. Brewster is an American astronomer. He is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) ...

, 6 , 1945–pres. , , align=left , S. Singer-Brewster; at Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey , align=left , S. Singer-Brewster , , - id="A. Singh" , align=left , Amanjot Singh , , 1988–pres. , , align=left , A. Singh; , align=left , A. Singh , , - id="R. Sipe" , align=left , Russell Sipe , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , R. Sipe; inferred, disc: and , align=left , R. Sipe , — , - id="B. Sipocz" , align=left ,

Brigitta Sipőcz Brigitta Sipőcz is a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. Sipőcz works as a researcher at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. At the time she was searching for the transit of M dwarfs. The Minor Planet Ce ...

, 42 , 1984–pres. , , align=left , B. Sipőcz; (bio-de) , align=left , B. Sipocz , , - id="M. L. Sitko" , align=left , Michael L. Sitko , , n.a. , , align=left , M. L. Sitko; inferred , align=left , M. L. Sitko , — , - id="B. A. Skiff" , align=left ,

Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering numerous asteroids and a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman–Skiff (with Jennifer Wiseman) and 140P/Bowell–Skiff (with Edward Bowell). Biography Skiff ...

, 62 , n.a. , , align=left , B. A. Skiff; at Lowell Observatory , align=left , B. A. Skiff , , - id="D. R. Skillman" , align=left , David R. Skillman , 17 , 1945–pres. , , align=left , D. R. Skillman; , align=left , D. R. Skillman; D. Skillman , , - id="J. Skvarc" , align=left , Jure Skvarč , 20 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , J. Skvarč; (bio-it) , align=left , J. Skvarc , , - id="E. Skvortsov" , align=left , Evgenij Fëdorovič Skvorcov , 3 , 1882–1952 ,
, align=left , E. Skvorcov; Evgenij Skvortsov, (bio-it) , align=left , E. Skvortsov , , - id="K. Smalley" , align=left ,

Sonia Keys Sonia Keys (1961 – August 13, 2018), formerly known as Kyle Smalley, was an American amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. She worked as an astronomer and software developer at the Minor Planet Center. Asteroid 36445 Smal ...

, , 1961–2018 , , align=left , K. Smalley; Kyle Smalley, amateur, Powell Observatory , align=left , K. Smalley , , - id="T. M. Smirnova" , align=left , Tamara Smirnova ,

135 135 may refer to: * 135 (number) * AD 135 * 135 BC * 135 film, better known as 35 mm film, is a format of photographic film used for still photography *135 (New Jersey bus) 135 may refer to: * 135 (number) * AD 135 * 135 BC * 135 film, better know ...

, 1935–2001 , , align=left , T. M. Smirnova; , align=left , T. M. Smirnova , , - id="G. Smith" , align=left , Glenn Smith , , 1962–Pres , , align=left , G. Smith; co-disc. with M. Brown , align=left , G. Smith , , - id="S. Smrekar" , align=left ,

Suzanne Smrekar Suzanne E. Smrekar is an American geophysicist and Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars InSight lander and the principal investigator for the planned VERITAS (spacecraft), VERITAS space probe to Venus. Background Smrekar obtained her B ...

, , n.a. , , align=left , S. Smrekar; Suzanne Elizabeth Smrekar; (bio-it) , align=left , S. Smrekar , — , - id="B. Sobczuk" , align=left , Bogdan Sobczuk , , n.a. , , align=left , B. Sobczuk
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, align=left , B. Sobczuk , — , - id="A. Sodor" , align=left , Adam Sodor , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Sodor; , align=left , A. Sodor , — , - id="A. Soffiantini" , align=left , Andrea Soffiantini , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Soffiantini; Carezza, Trentino (NASA) , align=left , A. Soffiantini , — , - id="P. Sogorb" , align=left , Patrick Sogorb , 6 , 1971–pres. , , align=left , P. Sogorb; amateur, (bio-fr) , align=left , P. Sogorb , — , - id="V. Y. Solovyov" , align=left , Vladimir Jakovlevič Solov'ëv , , n.a. , , align=left , V. Y. Solovyov; (bio-it) , align=left , V. Y. Solovyov , , - id="Y. Sorimachi" , align=left , Y. Sorimachi (astronomer) , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , Y. Sorimachi; disc: and , align=left , Y. Sorimachi , — , - id="G. Sostero" , align=left ,

Giovanni Sostero Giovanni Sostero (18 March 1964 – 6 December 2012) was an Italian amateur astronomer. He was one of the leading members of the Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia (Friuli, Italy). He was an honorary member of the Astronomical ...

, , 1964–2012 , , align=left , G. Sostero; amateur , align=left , G. Sostero , , - id="A. Sota" , align=left , Alfredo Sota , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Sota; inferred, at Sierra Nevada Observatory , align=left , A. Sota , , - id="G. Soulie" , align=left , Guy Soulié , 2 , 1920–pres. , , align=left , G. Soulié; amateur, (bio-fr) , align=left , G. Soulie , , - id="T. B. Spahr" , align=left ,

Timothy B. Spahr Timothy Bruce Spahr (born 1970) is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets. From 2000–2014 he worked at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian Minor Planet Center. From September 2006 to December 2014 he wa ...

, 59 , 1970–pres. , , align=left , T. B. Spahr; Timothy Bruce Spahr, at Bigelow Sky Survey , align=left , T. B. Spahr , , - id="S. Sposetti" , align=left , Stefano Sposetti ,

166 Year 166 ( CLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio (or, less frequently, year 919 ''Ab urbe condita' ...

, 1958–pres. , , align=left , S. Sposetti; amateur , align=left , S. Sposetti; Stefano Sposetti , , - id="T. Stafford" , align=left ,

Tom Stafford (astronomer) Tom Stafford is an American astronomer who has discovered a number of asteroids since 1997, including 12061 Alena, 12533 Edmond, 13436 Enid, 13688 Oklahoma and 15904 Halstead at Zeno Observatory (observatory code 727) in Edmond, Oklahoma E ...

, 40 , n.a. , , align=left , T. Stafford; , align=left , T. Stafford , — , - id="A. Staus" , align=left ,

Anton Staus Anton Staus (5 September 1872 – 21 July 1955) was a German astronomer. As a young man, he discovered the inner main-belt asteroid 335 Roberta at Heidelberg Observatory Heidelberg (; Palatine German: ') is a city in the German state of B ...

, 1 , 1872–1955 , , align=left , A. Staus; disc: , align=left , A. Staus , — , - id="D. I. Steel" , align=left ,

Duncan Steel Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discoverer of minor planets, discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working a ...

, 12 , 1955–pres. ,
, align=left , D. I. Steel; , align=left , D. I. Steel , , - id="W. A. Stein" , align=left , W. A. Stein , , n.a. , , align=left , W. A. Stein; inferred , align=left , W. A. Stein , , - id="E. Stephan" , align=left ,

Édouard Stephan Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (31 August 1837 – 31 December 1923) was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in some literature, but this is apparently erroneous. He was born in Sainte Pezenne (today one of the districts ...

, 2 , 1837–1923 , , align=left , É. Stephan; disc: and , align=left , E. Stephan , , - id="P. B. Stetson" , align=left , Peter B. Stetson , , 1952–pres. , , align=left , P. B. Stetson; Peter Brailey Stetson, (bio-it) , align=left , P. B. Stetson , , - id="B. L. Stevens" , align=left , Berton L. Stevens , 59 , 1951–pres. , , align=left , B. L. Stevens; amateur, Desert Moon Observatory , (bio-it) , align=left , B. L. Stevens , , - id="J. Stevens" , align=left , Janet A. Stevens , , 1950–pres. , , align=left , J. Stevens; amateur, née Madenberg, wife of B. L. Stevens (bio-it) , align=left , J. Stevens , , - id="C. F. Stewart" , align=left , Carlton F. Stewart , , n.a. , , align=left , C. F. Stewart; (bio-it) , align=left , C. F. Stewart , , - id="D. Stewart" , align=left ,

DeLisle Stewart DeLisle Stewart (March 16, 1870 – February 2, 1941) was an American astronomer. In 1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he took the ...

, 1 , 1870–1941 , , align=left , D. Stewart; disc: , align=left , D. Stewart , , - id="L. Stewart" , align=left , Lacey Stewart , , n.a. , , align=left , L. Stewart
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, align=left , L. Stewart , , - id="J. Stock" , align=left , Jürgen Stock (astronomer) , 3 , 1923–pres. ,
, align=left , J. Stock; , align=left , J. Stock , , - id="M. Stockmaster" , align=left , M. Stockmaster , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Stockmaster; inferred , align=left , M. Stockmaster , — , - id="R. M. Stoss" , align=left , Reiner Michael Stoss , 9 , 1975–pres. , , align=left , R. M. Stoss; amateur, at Starkenburg Observatory , align=left , R. M. Stoss; R. Stoss , , - id="L. Strabla" , align=left , Luca Strabla , , 1963–pres. , , align=left , L. Strabla; Luca Pietro Strabla, amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , L. Strabla , , - id="L.-G. Strolger" , align=left , Louis-Gregory Strolger , , n.a. , , align=left , L.-G. Strolger; inferred , align=left , L.-G. Strolger , — , - id="G. Strommer" , align=left , Gyula Strommer , , 1920–1995 , , align=left , G. Strommer; (bio-it) , align=left , G. Strommer , , - id="O. Struve" , align=left , Otto Struve , 2 , 1897–1963 , , align=left , O. Struve; , align=left , O. Struve , , - id="A. Stucchi" , align=left , Antonio Stucchi , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Stucchi; inferred , align=left , A. Stucchi , — , - id="J. Sue" , align=left , Jeffrey Sue , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Sue; inferred, at RAS Observatory
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, align=left , J. Sue , , - id="U. Suessenberger" , align=left , Uwe Süßenberger , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , U. Süßenberger; , align=left , U. Suessenberger , — , - id="M. Sugano" , align=left ,

Matsuo Sugano is a Japanese astronomer. He has discovered a number of asteroids, including 5881 Akashi (with T. Nomura), 6559 Nomura (with K. Kawanishi), and 8892 Kakogawa (with T. Nomura). He was also a co-discoverer of Comet Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa (C/ ...

, 4 , 1939–pres. , , align=left , M. Sugano; amateur , align=left , M. Sugano , , - id="A. Sugie" , align=left ,

Atsushi Sugie is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He works at the Dynic Astronomical Observatory and has discovered many planets while working there. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 122 numbered minor planets ...

, n.a. , , align=left , A. Sugie; at Dynic Astronomical Observatory , align=left , A. Sugie , , - id="R. Suvanto" , align=left ,

Rafael Suvanto Rafael Suvanto (June 28, 1909 in Turku – March 9, 1940 in Kärstilänjärvi) was a Finnish astronomer. Suvanto was the assistant of Yrjö Väisälä. He died in the Winter War. His rank was lieutenant. The Minor Planet Center credits him with t ...

, , 1909–1940 , , align=left , R. Suvanto; (bio-it) , align=left , R. Suvanto , , - id="K. Suzuki" , align=left ,

Kenzo Suzuki (astronomer) is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Between 1984 and 1992, he has discovered 42 minor planets mostly in collaboration with astronomers Takeshi Urata and Toshimasa Furuta. A local guide for the Brother Earth He is the disco ...

, 42 , 1950–pres. , , align=left , K. Suzuki; amateur , align=left , K. Suzuki , , - id="S. Suzuki" , align=left ,

Shōhei Suzuki is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. In collaboration with Japanese astronomer Masanori Hirasawa, Suzuki discovered 52 numbered minor planets at Mount Nyukasa Station between 1991 and 1998. Both men are graduates of Wase ...

, 52 , n.a. , , align=left , S. Suzuki; , align=left , S. Suzuki , — , - id="S. R. Swanson" , align=left , Steven Roger Swanson , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , S. R. Swanson; inferred, disc: and , align=left , S. R. Swanson , , - id="F. Sy" , align=left ,

Frédéric Sy Frédéric Sy was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, from 1887 to 1918. While working in Algier ...

, 2 , 1861–19xx , , align=left , F. Sy; at Algiers and Paris observatories; disc: and , align=left , F. Sy , , - id="G. Szabo" , align=left , Gyula M. Szabó , 9 , 1979–pres. , , align=left , G. Szabó; (bio-fr) , align=left , G. Szabo , , - id="T. Szalai" , align=left , Tamás Szalai (astronomer) , 6 , n.a. , , align=left , T. Szalai; inferred, disc: and , align=left , T. Szalai , , - id="D. Szam" , align=left , Dorottya Szám , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Szám; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , D. Szam , — , - id="P. Szekely" , align=left , Péter Székely (astronomer) , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , P. Székely; Piszkéstető Station , align=left , P. Szekely , — , - id="A. Szing" , align=left , Attila Szing , 6 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Szing; inferred , align=left , A. Szing , — , - id="D. Taeymans" , align=left , D. Taeymans , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Taeymans; inferred , align=left , D. Taeymans , — , - id="L. G. Taff" , align=left , Laurence G. Taff , 10 , 1947–pres. , , align=left , L. G. Taff; (bio-fr) , align=left , L. G. Taff , — , - id="U. Tagliaferri" , align=left , Ugo Tagliaferri , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , U. Tagliaferri; amateur, disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , U. Tagliaferri , — , - id="A. Takahashi" , align=left , Atsushi Takahashi , 22 , 1965–pres. , , align=left , A. Takahashi; amateur, at Kitami Observatory , align=left , A. Takahashi , , - id="M. Takeishi" , align=left , Masanori Takeishi , 13 , 1950–pres. , , align=left , M. Takeishi; amateur, (bio-de) , align=left , M. Takeishi , , - id="A. W. Taylor" , align=left , A. W. Taylor (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , A. W. Taylor; , Cordell-Lorenz Obs. ( ''see D. T. Durig'') , align=left , A. W. Taylor , — , - id="D. Team" , align=left , D. Team (astronomer) , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , D. Team; , Kitt Peak , align=left , D. Team , — , - id="N. Teamo" , align=left , Noéline Teamo ,

240 __NOTOC__ Year 240 ( CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Venustus (or, less frequently, year 993 ''Ab u ...

, n.a. , , align=left , N. Teamo; amateur, Hibiscus Observatory , align=left , N. Teamo , — , - id="E. W. Tempel" , align=left ,

Wilhelm Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy. Tempel was b ...

, 5 , 1821–1889 , , align=left , E. W. Tempel; , align=left , E. W. Tempel , , - id="L. Tesi" , align=left ,

Luciano Tesi Luciano Tesi (; born 10 December 1931) is an Italian veterinarian, amateur astronomer, discoverer of many minor planets, and director of the San Marcello Pistoiese Observatory. In 1980, he founded the "Amateur Group of Pistoiese Mountain" ( it, ...

192 Year 192 ( CXCII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aelius and Pertinax (or, less frequently, year 945 ''Ab urbe condita ...

, 1931–pres. , , align=left , L. Tesi; amateur , align=left , L. Tesi; L. esi , , - id="A. Testa" , align=left ,

Augusto Testa Augusto Testa (born 1950) is an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, observing at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy. According to the Minor Planet Center, he has discovered numerous asteroids during ...

, 31 , 1950–pres. , , align=left , A. Testa; amateur , align=left , A. Testa , , - id="H. Thiele" , align=left , Holger Thiele , 4 , 1878–1946 , , align=left , H. Thiele; son of Thorvald N. Thiele , align=left , H. Thiele , , - id="B. Thinius" , align=left , Bernd Thinius , 2 , 1959–pres. , , align=left , B. Thinius; amateur, disc: and , , align=left , B. Thinius , — , - id="D. J. Tholen" , align=left ,

David J. Tholen David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University of Arizona, and specializes in planetary and Solar System astronomy. He is a discovere ...

, 68 , 1955–pres. , , align=left , D. J. Tholen; , align=left , D. J. Tholen; D. C. Tholen , , - id="N. G. Thomas" , align=left , Norman G. Thomas , 55 , 1930–pres. , , align=left , N. G. Thomas; , align=left , N. G. Thomas , , - id="W. Thuillot" , align=left , William Thuillot , , 1951–pres. , , align=left , W. Thuillot; inferred , align=left , W. Thuillot , , - id="D. Tibbets" , align=left , Dan Tibbets , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , D. Tibbets; inferred, disc: and , align=left , D. Tibbets , — , - id="J. Ticha" , align=left , Jana Tichá ,

119 119 may refer to: * 119 (number), a natural number * 119 (emergency telephone number) * AD 119, a year in the 2nd century AD * 119 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC * 119 (album), 2012 * 119 (NCT song) *119 (Show Me the Money song) * 119 (film), a ...

, 1965–pres. , , align=left , J. Tichá; , align=left , J. Ticha , , - id="M. Tichy" , align=left , Miloš Tichý ,

, 1966–pres. , , align=left , M. Tichý; , align=left , M. Tichy , , - id="J. Tiedtke" , align=left , Jürgen Tiedtke , , 1966–pres. , , align=left , J. Tiedtke; amateur, co-disc. with M. Klein
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, align=left , J. Tiedtke , — , - id="F. Tietjen" , align=left ,

Friedrich Tietjen Friedrich Tietjen (1832 in Westerstede, Oldenburg – 1895 in Berlin) was a German astronomer. He was director of the ''Astronomisches Rechen-Institut'' (ARI) from 1874 until his death in 1895. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the di ...

, 1 , 1832–1895 , , align=left , F. Tietjen; ARI-astronomer, disc: , align=left , F. Tietjen , , - id="M. Todd" , align=left , Michael Todd (astronomer) , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , M. Todd; inferred , align=left , M. Todd , — , - id="C. W. Tombaugh" , align=left , Clyde Tombaugh , 15 , 1906–1997 , , align=left , C. W. Tombaugh; , align=left , C. W. Tombaugh , , - id="M. Tombelli" , align=left ,

Maura Tombelli Maura Tombelli (born 1952 in Montelupo Fiorentino) is an Italian amateur astronomer who began her training in astronomy as an observer of variable stars. She is a prolific discoverer of almost 200 minor planets, including the main-belt asteroid ...

199 Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the ...

, 1952–pres. , , align=left , M. Tombelli; amateur , align=left , M. Tombelli , , - id="K. Tomita" , align=left ,

Kōichirō Tomita was a Japanese astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and comets. The fireball passed over west Japan and was recorded by photos and a sketch. Kōichirō Tomita identified that it was the Kosmos 133 spacecraft (30 November 1966). He is credit ...

, 9 , 1925–2006 , , align=left , K. Tomita; at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory , align=left , K. Tomita , , - id="M. Tonincelli" , align=left , Mario Tonincelli , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , M. Tonincelli; inferred , align=left , M. Tonincelli , — , - id="J. L. Tonry" , align=left , John L. Tonry , 2 , 1953–pres. , , align=left , J. L. Tonry; University of Hawaii, disc: and , (bio-de) , align=left , J. L. Tonry , , - id="C. Torres" , align=left ,

Carlos Torres (astronomer) Carlos Torres (1929–2011) was a Chilean astronomer of the University of Chile and an individual member of the International Astronomical Union on several commissions. Between 1968 and 1982, he discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids fr ...

, 37 , 1929–2011 , , align=left , C. Torres; Carlos Torres R. (not Carlos Guillermo Torres)
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, align=left , C. Torres , , - id="Y. Torres" , align=left , Y. Torres , , n.a. , , align=left , Y. Torres; inferred , align=left , Y. Torres , , - id="J. Toth" , align=left ,

Juraj Tóth Juraj Tóth (born 28 March 1975) is a Slovak astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and professor of astronomy at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. An expert in meteoroid fragmentation, he is known for his observations of the 1998 ...

, 16 , 1975–pres. , , align=left , J. Tóth; at Comenius University , align=left , J. Toth , , - id="S. Tourtellotte" , align=left ,

Suzanne W. Tourtellotte Suzanne W. Tourtellotte (January 11, 1945 – June 20, 2013) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, a researcher at Yale University in the United States. Biography Tourtellotte graduated from MIT in 1966, and receiv ...

, 16 , 1945–2013 , , align=left , S. Tourtellotte; inferred , align=left , S. Tourtellotte , — , - id="F. Tozzi" , align=left , Fabrizio Tozzi ,

153 Year 153 ( CLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rusticus and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 906 '' Ab urbe cond ...

, 1970–pres. , , align=left , F. Tozzi; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , F. Tozzi , — , - id="R. Trentman" , align=left , Richard Trentman , 3 , 1939–pres. , , align=left , R. Trentman; amateur, Powell Observatory Near-Earth-Object program; disc: and , align=left , R. Trentman , , - id="D. E. Trilling" , align=left , David E. Trilling , 52 , 1972–pres. , , align=left , D. E. Trilling; disc: and , align=left , D. E. Trilling , , - id="P. J. Tristram" , align=left , Paul J. Tristram , , n.a. , , align=left , P. J. Tristram; MJUO
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, align=left , P. J. Tristram , , - id="C. A. Trujillo" , align=left , Chad Trujillo , 65 , 1973–pres. , , align=left , C. Trujillo; , align=left , C. A. Trujillo; C. Trujillo; C. W. Trujillo , , - id="Y.-S. Tsai" , align=left , Yuan-Sheng Tsai (astronomer) , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , Y.-S. Tsai; inferred , align=left , Y.-S. Tsai , , - id="A. Tsuchikawa" , align=left , Akira Tsuchikawa , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Tsuchikawa; (bio-it) , align=left , A. Tsuchikawa , — , - id="R. A. Tucker" , align=left ,

Roy A. Tucker Roy A. Tucker (born 1951 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American astronomer best known for the co-discovery of near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly known as ) along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii. ...

737 737 most commonly refers to: * Boeing 737, an American narrow-body passenger airplane ** Boeing 737 Classic ** Boeing 737 MAX ** Boeing 737 Next Generation * AD 737, a year in the common era * 737 BC, a year * 737 (number), a number 737 may als ...

, 1951–pres. , , align=left , R. A. Tucker; , align=left , R. A. Tucker; R. Tucker , , - id="D. Tuma" , align=left , D. Tuma , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Tuma; inferred , align=left , D. Tuma , — , - id="H. P. Tuttle" , align=left , Horace Parnell Tuttle , 2 , 1837–1923 , , align=left , H. P. Tuttle; , align=left , H. P. Tuttle , , - id="A. Udalski" , align=left , Andrzej Udalski , 2 , 1957–pres. , , align=left , A. Udalski; disc: and , align=left , A. Udalski , — , - id="S. Ueda" , align=left ,

Seiji Ueda is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 1987 and 2000, Ueda (in collaboration with Hiroshi Kaneda) discovered 705 asteroids. He holds an MD and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is on the staff at the Gr ...

, 705 , 1952–pres. , , align=left , S. Ueda; amateur , align=left , S. Ueda , , - id="S. Urakawa" , align=left , Seitaro Urakawa , 4 , 1975–pres. , , align=left , S. Urakawa; at Bisei , align=left , S. Urakawa , , - id="T. Urata" , align=left ,

Takeshi Urata was a Japanese astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory. In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet (2090 Mizuho) in over fifty years, which he named after his daughter, Mizu ...

642 __NOTOC__ Year 642 ( DCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 642 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

, 1947–2012 , , align=left , T. Urata; amateur , align=left , T. Urata , , - id="F. Uto" , align=left ,

Fumiaki Uto is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids ...

, 22 , n.a. , , align=left , F. Uto; , align=left , F. Uto; T. Uto , — , - id="O. Vaduvescu" , align=left , Ovidiu Vaduvescu , 8 , n.a. , , align=left , O. Vaduvescu; first: , align=left , O. Vaduvescu , — , - id="A. Vagnozzi" , align=left , Antonio Vagnozzi , 46 , 1950–pres. , , align=left , A. Vagnozzi; amateur , align=left , A. Vagnozzi , , - id="M. Vaisala" , align=left ,

Marja Väisälä Marja Ilmatar Väisälä (9 May 1916, Helsinki, Finland – 21 December 2011, Turku) was a Finnish teacher of mathematics and natural sciences, who in 1950 founded a private school in Swakopmund in what is now Namibia, where she taught the chil ...

, 2 , 1916–2011 , , align=left , M. Väisälä; Marja Ilmatar Väisälä, daughter of Y. Väisälä, disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , M. Vaisala , — , - id="Y. Vaisala" , align=left , Yrjö Väisälä ,

128 128 may refer to *128 (number), a natural number *AD 128, a year in the 2nd century AD *128 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC *128 (New Jersey bus) See also * List of highways numbered A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may al ...

, 1891–1971 , , align=left , Y. Väisälä; at Turku Observatory , align=left , Y. Vaisala , , , - id="M. Vale" , align=left , Mallory Vale , 3 , 1986–pres. , , align=left , M. Vale; , align=left , M. Vale , , - id="J. Vales" , align=left , Jan Vales , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Vales; at Črni Vrh, , align=left , J. Vales , — , - id="G. Van Biesbroeck" , align=left ,

George Van Biesbroeck George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck, , January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer. He worked at observatories in Belgium, Germany and the United States. He specialized in the observation o ...

, 16 , 1880–1974 ,
, align=left , G. Van Biesbroeck; , align=left , G. Van Biesbroeck , , - id="H. van Gent" , align=left ,

Hendrik van Gent Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam)''Album studiosorum Academiæ lugduno-batavæ MDCCCLXXV-MCMXXV'', A. W. Sijthoff, 1925, p. 376 was a Dutch astronomer. He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to o ...

, 39 , 1899–1947 , , align=left , H. van Gent; , align=left , H. van Gent , , - id="C. J. van Houten" , align=left , Cornelis Johannes van Houten , 4643 , 1920–2002 , , align=left , C. J. van Houten; , align=left , C. J. van Houten , , - id="I. van Houten-Groeneveld" , align=left ,

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (; 21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer. Background In a jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer of many thousands of aster ...

, 4644 , 1921–2015 , , align=left , I. van Houten-Groeneveld; , align=left , I. van Houten-Groeneveld; I. Groeneveld , , - id="A. van Staden" , align=left , Andre van Staden , , n.a. , , align=left , A. van Staden; inferred , align=left , A. van Staden , , - id="A. Vanden Heuvel" , align=left , Andrew Vanden Heuvel , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Vanden Heuvel; (bio-it) , align=left , A. Vanden Heuvel , — , - id="L. Vasta" , align=left , Luděk Vašta , , n.a. , , align=left , L. Vašta; inferred , align=left , L. Vasta , — , - id="Z. Vavrova" , align=left , Zdeňka Vávrová ,

115 115 may refer to: *115 (number), the number *AD 115, a year in the 2nd century AD *115 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC *115 (Hampshire Fortress) Corps Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, a unit in the UK Territorial Army *115 (Leicestershire) Field ...

, 1945–pres. , , align=left , Z. Vávrová; , align=left , Z. Vavrova , , - id="C. Veillet" , align=left , Christian Veillet ,

161 Year 161 ( CLXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Aurelius (or, less frequently, year 914 '' Ab urbe condi ...

, 1954–pres. , , align=left , C. Veillet; , align=left , C. Veillet , , - id="G. Ventre" , align=left , Graziano Ventre , 4 , 1954–pres. , , align=left , G. Ventre; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , G. Ventre , , - id="K. Vida" , align=left , Krisztián Vida , , 1983–pres. , , align=left , K. Vida;
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, co-disc. #K. Sarneczky , align=left , K. Vida , — , - id="A. Vidal" , align=left , Antoni Vidal , , n.a. , , align=left , A. Vidal; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , A. Vidal , — , - id="E. Vigil" , align=left , Ester Vigil , , n.a. , , align=left , E. Vigil; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , E. Vigil , — , - id="J. Vilagi" , align=left , Jozef Világi , 12 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Világi; inferred , align=left , J. Vilagi , — , - id="W. Villiger" , align=left ,

Walter Augustin Villiger Walter Augustin Villiger (1872–1938; his first name is sometimes spelt Walther) was a Swiss astronomer and Carl Zeiss engineer who discovered an asteroid while working in Munich, Germany. He also participated in the observation of comets. His ...

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George R. Viscome George R. Viscome (born 1956) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He also worked as a broadcast technician in Albany, New York. Viscome has discovered 33 asteroids. Asteroid 6183 Viscome, discovered by Carolyn Shoemak ...

, 33 , 1956–pres. , , align=left , G. R. Viscome; , align=left , G. R. Viscome , , - id="D. Voglsam" , align=left , David Voglsam , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Voglsam
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, align=left , D. Voglsam , — , - id="H. Vogt" , align=left ,

Heinrich Vogt (astronomer) Heinrich Vogt (October 5, 1890 – January 23, 1968) was a German astronomer. Early life Heinrich Vogt was born on October 5, 1890 in Gau-Algesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany to Philipp Vogt, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha. Education ...

, 1 , 1890–1968 , , align=left , H. Vogt; disc: , align=left , H. Vogt , , - id="L. Volta" , align=left , Luigi Volta , 5 , 1876–1952 , , align=left , L. Volta; (bio-it) , align=left , L. Volta , , - id="T. Vorobjov" , align=left ,

Tomáš Vorobjov Tomáš Vorobjov (; born 1984) is a Slovaks, Slovak amateur astronomer and an observer and discoverer of minor planets, in particular near-Earth objects. He is the director of the IASC Data Reduction Team and is credited by the Minor Planet Cent ...

, 15 , 1984–pres. , , align=left , T. Vorobjov; amateur , align=left , T. Vorobjov , , - id="C. Vuissoz" , align=left , Christel Vuissoz , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , C. Vuissoz; inferred, disc: , align=left , C. Vuissoz , — , - id="L. Vyskocil" , align=left , Libor Vyskočil , , n.a. , , align=left , L. Vyskočil; inferred , align=left , L. Vyskocil , — , - id="A. Wachmann" , align=left ,

Arno Arthur Wachmann Arno Arthur Wachmann (8 March 1902 – 24 July 1990) was a German astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who worked for many years at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.3 , 1902–1990 , , align=left , A. Wachmann; , align=left , A. Wachmann , , - id="S. Wadhwa" , align=left , Sahil Wadhwa , , n.a. , , align=left , S. Wadhwa; , align=left , S. Wadhwa , — , - id="J. Wagner" , align=left , Joe Wagner (astronomer) , 6 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , J. Wagner; (bio-it) , align=left , J. Wagner , — , - id="R. M. Wagner" , align=left , R. Mark Wagner , 9 , n.a. , , align=left , R. M. Wagner
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, align=left , R. M. Wagner , — , - id="J. D. Waldron" , align=left ,

Duncan Waldron J. Duncan Waldron is a Scottish planetarium astronomer, photographer, and discoverer of two minor planets. Duncan Waldron was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first job was creating high quality reproductions of astronomical plates for the Royal Obs ...

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, align=left , J. D. Waldron; amateur, disc: and , (bio-it) , align=left , J. D. Waldron , — , - id="J. V. Wall" , align=left , Jasper V. Wall , , n.a. , , align=left , J. V. Wall; (bio-it) , align=left , J. V. Wall , — , - id="A. A. E. Wallenquist" , align=left ,

Åke Wallenquist Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (January 16, 1904 – April 8, 1994) was a Swedish astronomer. He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatori ...

, , 1904–1994 , , align=left , Å. A. E. Wallenquist; at Kvistaberg Station , align=left , A. A. E. Wallenquist , , - id="B. D. Warner" , align=left , Brian D. Warner , 3 , 1952–pres. , , align=left , B. D. Warner; photometrist, (bio-it)
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, align=left , B. D. Warner , , - id="A. Warnock" , align=left , Archibald Warnock , 7 , n.a. , , align=left , A. Warnock; (bio-it) , align=left , A. Warnock , — , - id="L. H. Wasserman" , align=left , Lawrence H. Wasserman ,

295 __NOTOC__ Year 295 ( CCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 295th Year of the Common Era ( CE) and Anno Domini ( AD) designations, the 295th year of the 1st millennium, th ...

, n.a. , , align=left , L. H. Wasserman; occultation, (bio-it) , align=left , L. H. Wasserman , , - id="K. Watanabe" , align=left ,

Kazuro Watanabe is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets. He was born in Hokkaidō, Japan and is a member of the ''Astronomical Society of Japan'' as well as of the ''Oriental Astronomical Association''. Through publications ...

671 __NOTOC__ Year 671 ( DCLXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 671 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar e ...

, 1955–pres. , , align=left , K. Watanabe; amateur , align=left , K. Watanabe , , - id="J. C. Watson" , align=left , James Craig Watson , 22 , 1838–1880 ,
, align=left , J. C. Watson; , align=left , J. C. Watson , , - id="M. Watt" , align=left , Martin Watt , 4 , n.a. , , align=left , M. Watt; (bio-it) , align=left , M. Watt , — , - id="J. S. Weaver" , align=left , J. Scott Weaver , 2 , 1940–2008 , , align=left , J. S. Weaver; (bio-it) , align=left , J. S. Weaver; S. Weaver , , - id="R. Weber" , align=left ,

Robert Weber (astronomer) Robert Weber (1926–2008) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets who ran the precursor to the LINEAR project shortly before his retirement in 1996. Data were collected by manually entering telescope pointing positions and req ...

, 8 , 1926–2008 , , align=left , R. Weber; , align=left , R. Weber , , - id="K. Wefel" , align=left , Katrina Wefel , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , K. Wefel; at Baton Rouge, disc: and , align=left , K. Wefel , — , - id="D. Wells" , align=left , Don J. Wells , 21 , 1965–pres. , , align=left , D. Wells; amateur, (bio-it) , align=left , D. Wells , , - id="L. Wells" , align=left , Lisa Wells (astronomer) , 5 , n.a. , , align=left , L. Wells; inferred; remote observer for CFHT; co-discoverer #M. Micheli
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, align=left , L. Wells , — , - id="J. Wentworth" , align=left , Jim Wentworth , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Wentworth; inferred , align=left , J. Wentworth , — , - id="W. Wenzel" , align=left , Wolfgang Wenzel (astronomer) , , 1929–pres. , , align=left , W. Wenzel; (bio-de) , align=left , W. Wenzel , , - id="R. M. West" , align=left , Richard Martin West , :Discoveries by Richard Martin West, 40 , 1941–pres. , , align=left , R. M. West; , align=left , R. M. West , , - id="F. L. Whipple" , align=left , Fred Lawrence Whipple , , 1906–2004 , , align=left , F. L. Whipple; , align=left , F. L. Whipple , , - id="M. White" , align=left , Minor White (astronomer) , :Discoveries by Minor White (astronomer), 45 , n.a. , , align=left , M. White; :it:Minor White (astronomo), (bio-it) , align=left , M. White , — , - id="R. J. Whiteley" , align=left , Robert J. Whiteley , :Discoveries by Robert J. Whiteley, 12 , 1971–pres. , , align=left , R. J. Whiteley; :it:Robert J. Whiteley, (bio-it) , align=left , R. J. Whiteley , , - id="P. A. Wiegert" , align=left , Paul Wiegert , :Discoveries by Paul A. Wiegert, 85 , 1967–pres. , , align=left , P. A. Wiegert; , align=left , P. A. Wiegert , , - id="P. Wiggins" , align=left , Patrick Wiggins (astronomer) , :Discoveries by Patrick Wiggins (astronomer), 5 , 1949–pres. , , align=left , P. Wiggins; amateur, :it:Patrick Wiggins (astronomo), (bio-it) , align=left , P. Wiggins , , - id="P. Wild" , align=left , Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer) , :Discoveries by Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer), 94 , 1925–2014 , , align=left , P. Wild; , align=left , P. Wild , , - id="P. D. Wilder" , align=left , Peter D. Wilder , , n.a. , , align=left , P. D. Wilder; :it:Peter D. Wilder, (bio-it) , align=left , P. D. Wilder , — , - id="I. P. Williams" , align=left , Iwan P. Williams , :Discoveries by Iwan P. Williams, 7 , n.a. , , align=left , I. P. Williams; :it:Iwan P. Williams, (bio-it) , align=left , I. P. Williams , , - id="J. G. Williams" , align=left , James G. Williams , , n.a. , , align=left , J. G. Williams
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, align=left , J. G. Williams , , - id="K. A. Williams" , align=left , Kenneth A. Williams , :Discoveries by Kenneth A. Williams, 14 , 1956–pres. , , align=left , K. A. Williams; Lake Clear N.Y.; astrophotographer , align=left , K. A. Williams , , - id="R. M. Williams" , align=left , Ryan M. Williams , , n.a. , , align=left , R. M. Williams; :it:Ryan M. Williams, (bio-it) , align=left , R. M. Williams , — , - id="J. Willis" , align=left , John E. Willis , , n.a. , , align=left , J. Willis; USNO-astronomer
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:it:John E. Willis, (bio-it) , align=left , J. Willis , — , - id="A. G. Wilson" , align=left , Albert George Wilson , :Discoveries by Albert George Wilson, 5 , 1918–2012 , , align=left , A. G. Wilson; , align=left , A. G. Wilson , , - id="C. A. Wirtanen" , align=left , Carl A. Wirtanen , :Discoveries by Carl A. Wirtanen, 8 , 1910–1990 , , align=left , C. A. Wirtanen; , align=left , C. A. Wirtanen , , - id="E. Wirtanen" , align=left , Edith Wirtanen , , n.a. , , align=left , E. Wirtanen; Edith Rand Wirtanen, wife of Carl Wirtanen, :it:Edith Wirtanen, (bio-it) , align=left , E. Wirtanen , , - id="G. Witt" , align=left , Carl Gustav Witt , :Discoveries by Carl Gustav Witt, 2 , 1866–1946 , , align=left , G. Witt; , align=left , G. Witt , , - id="D. Wittman" , align=left , David Wittman , 3 , n.a. , , align=left , D. Wittman; David M. Wittman , align=left , D. Wittman , — , - id="C. Wolf" , align=left , Christian Wolf (astronomer) , , n.a. , , align=left , C. Wolf; assumed , align=left , C. Wolf , — , - id="M. Wolf" , align=left , Marek Wolf , :Discoveries by Marek Wolf, 19 , 1957–pres. , , align=left , M. Wolf; , align=left , M. Wolf , — , - id="M. F. Wolf" , align=left , Max Wolf , :Discoveries by Max Wolf, 248 , 1863–1932 , , align=left , M. F. Wolf; , align=left , M. F. Wolf , , - id="C. Wolfe" , align=left , Chris Wolfe , :Discoveries by Chris Wolfe, 29 , n.a. , , align=left , C. Wolfe; :it:Chris Wolfe, (bio-it) , align=left , C. Wolfe , — , - id="U. Wolff" , align=left , Ulrich Wolff , :Discoveries by Ulrich Wolff, 2 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , U. Wolff; amateur, Berlin
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, align=left , U. Wolff , — , - id="H. E. Wood" , align=left , Harry Edwin Wood , :Discoveries by Harry Edwin Wood, 12 , 1881–1946 , , align=left , H. E. Wood; , align=left , H. E. Wood , , - id="X. Gao" , align=left , Gao Xing , :Discoveries by Gao Xing, 8 , 1974–pres. , , align=left , X. Gao; first disc: , obscode:IAU code#C42, C42 , align=left , X. Gao , , - id="N. Yamamoto" , align=left , Naotaka Yamamoto , , n.a. , , align=left , N. Yamamoto; :it:Naotaka Yamamoto, (bio-it) , align=left , N. Yamamoto , — , - id="M. Yanai" , align=left , Masayuki Yanai , :Discoveries by Masayuki Yanai, 27 , 1959–pres. , , align=left , M. Yanai; , align=left , M. Yanai , , - id="T.-C. Yang" , align=left , Yang Tingzhang , :Discoveries by Yang Tingzhang, 12 , n.a. , , align=left , T.-C. Yang; :it:Yang Tingzhang, (bio-it) , align=left , T.-C. Yang , — , - id="Q.-z. Ye" , align=left , Ye Quan-Zhi , :Discoveries by Quanzhi Ye, 213 , 1988–pres. , , align=left , Q.-z. Ye; also: Quan-Zhi Ye, :it:Quanzhi Ye, (bio-it)
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, align=left , Q.-z. Ye; Q.-Z. Ye; Q. Ye , , - id="B. Yeung" , align=left , B. Yeung , 1 , n.a. , , align=left , B. Yeung; , align=left , B. Yeung , — , - id="W. K. Y. Yeung" , align=left , William Kwong Yu Yeung , :Discoveries by William K. Y. Yeung, 2049 , 1960–pres. , , align=left , W. K. Y. Yeung; amateur, :it:William Kwong Yu Yeung, (bio-it) , align=left , W. K. Y. Yeung; W. K. Yeung , , - id="M. Yoshimi" , align=left , M. Yoshimi , , n.a. , , align=left , M. Yoshimi; , align=left , M. Yoshimi , , - id="J. W. Young" , align=left , James Whitney Young , :Discoveries by James Whitney Young, 267 , 1941–pres. , , align=left , J. W. Young , align=left , J. W. Young; J. Young , , - id="J. Zakrajsek" , align=left , Jure Zakrajšek , :Discoveries by Jure Zakrajšek, 7 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Zakrajšek
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, align=left , J. Zakrajsek , — , - id="O. Zamora" , align=left , O. Zamora , , n.a. , , align=left , O. Zamora; co-disc. #O. Vaduvescu , align=left , O. Zamora , — , - id="F. Zanardini" , align=left , Fulvio Zanardini , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , F. Zanardini; disc: and , :it:Fulvio Zanardini, (bio-it) , align=left , F. Zanardini , — , - id="L. Zannoni" , align=left , Luciano Zannoni , , n.a. , , align=left , L. Zannoni; , align=left , L. Zannoni , — , - id="V. Zappala" , align=left , Vincenzo Zappalà , :Discoveries by Vincenzo Zappalà, 9 , 1945–pres. , , align=left , V. Zappalà; at Pino Torinese Observatory , align=left , V. Zappala , , - id="J. Zdanavicius" , align=left , Justas Zdanavičius , :Discoveries by Justas Zdanavičius, 114 , n.a. , , align=left , J. Zdanavičius; :it:Justas Zdanavičius, (bio-it) , align=left , J. Zdanavicius , — , - id="K. Zdanavicius" , align=left , Kazimieras Zdanavičius , , 1938–pres. , , align=left , K. Zdanavičius; :it:Kazimieras Zdanavičius, (bio-it) , align=left , K. Zdanavicius , , - id="K. W. Zeigler" , align=left , Kenneth W. Zeigler , :Discoveries by Kenneth W. Zeigler, 3 , n.a. , , align=left , K. W. Zeigler; disc: , :it:Kenneth W. Zeigler, (bio-it) , align=left , K. W. Zeigler , — , - id="D. Zelinsky" , align=left , David S. Zelinsky , , n.a. , , align=left , D. Zelinsky; inferred , align=left , D. Zelinsky , , - id="O. Zeloyniy" , align=left , O. Zeloyniy , 2 , n.a. , , align=left , O. Zeloyniy; inferred, first: , align=left , O. Zeloyniy , – , - id="Z. Xu" , align=left , Xu Zhijian , :Discoveries by Xu Zhijian, 4 , 1989–pres. , , align=left , Z. Xu; amateur, , co-discoveries with

, supernovae, novae, 300+ SOHO comets , align=left , Z. Xu , , - id="L. V. Zhuravleva" , align=left , Lyudmila Zhuravleva , :Discoveries by Lyudmila Zhuravleva, 213 , 1946–pres. ,
, align=left , L. V. Zhuravleva; Lyudmila Vasil'evna Zhuravleva; ITA-astronomer , align=left , L. V. Zhuravleva , , - id="M. Ziboli" , align=left , Massimo Ziboli , :Discoveries by Massimo Ziboli, 4 , n.a. , , align=left , M. Ziboli; amateur, disc: , :it:Massimo Ziboli, (bio-it) , align=left , M. Ziboli , — , - id="P. Zigo" , align=left , Pavel Zigo , , n.a. , , align=left , P. Zigo; inferred , align=left , P. Zigo , — , - id="U. Zimmer" , align=left , Ute Zimmer , :Discoveries by Ute Zimmer, 24 , 1964–pres. , , align=left , U. Zimmer; amateur, , align=left , U. Zimmer , — , - id="M. Zolnowski" , align=left , Michał Żołnowski , :Discoveries by Michał Żołnowski, 16 , 1975–pres. , , align=left , M. Żołnowski; amateur, Rantiga Osservatorio , align=left , M. Zolnowski , , - id="F. B. Zoltowski" , align=left , Frank B. Zoltowski , :Discoveries by Frank B. Zoltowski, 229 , 1957–pres. , , align=left , F. B. Zoltowski; amateur , align=left , F. B. Zoltowski , , - id="G. Zonaro" , align=left , Giovanni Zonaro , , n.a. , , align=left , G. Zonaro; amateur, :it:Giovanni Zonaro, (bio-it) , align=left , G. Zonaro , — , - id="C. Zurita" , align=left , Cristina Zurita , , n.a. , , align=left , C. Zurita; inferred , align=left , C. Zurita , — , - id="A. Zytkow" , align=left , Anna N. Żytkow , :Discoveries by Anna N. Żytkow, 7 , 1947–pres. , , align=left , A. Żytkow; , align=left , A. Zytkow , —

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}) , align=left , Begues , - id="Belesta" , align=left , Bélesta Observatory , :Discoveries by the Bélesta Observatory, 2 , IAU code#A05, A05 , , align=left , Bélesta Obs.; at Bélesta-en-Lauragais, ADAGIO society , align=left , Belesta , - id="Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program" , align=left , Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program , :Discoveries by SCAP, 1304 , IAU code#327, 327 , , align=left , SCAP; , align=left , Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program; NAOC Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program , - id="Bergen-Enkheim" , align=left , Bergen-Enkheim Observatory , :Discoveries by the Bergen-Enkheim Observatory, 1 , IAU code#A74, A74 , , align=left , Bergen-Enkheim Obs.; , align=left , Bergen-Enkheim , - id="Bergisch Gladbach" , align=left , Bergisch Gladbach Observatory , :Discoveries by the Bergisch Gladbach Observatory, 11 , IAU code#621, 621 , , align=left , Bergisch Gladbach Obs.; , align=left , Bergisch Gladbach , - id="Bohyunsan" , align=left , Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory , :Discoveries by the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, 31 , IAU code#344, 344 , , align=left , Bohyunsan Obs.; , align=left , Bohyunsan , - id="Boyden Observatory" , align=left , Boyden Observatory , :Discoveries by the Boyden Observatory, 4 , IAU code#074, 074 , , align=left , Boyden Obs.; , align=left , Boyden Observatory , - id="Bulgarian National Observatory" , align=left , Bulgarian National Observatory , :Discoveries by the Rozhen Observatory, 10 , IAU code#071, 071 , , align=left , Bulgarian National Obs.; , align=left , Bulgarian National Observatory , - id="Cala d'Hort" , align=left , Cala d'Hort Observatory , , IAU code#C85, C85 , , align=left , Cala d'Hort Obs.; ''(Observatorio Cala d'Hort)'' , align=left , Observatiorio Cala d'Hort , - id="CBA-East" , align=left , CBA-East Observatory , :Discoveries by the CBA-East Observatory, 1 , IAU code#H86, H86 , , align=left , CBA-East Obs.; , align=left , CBA-East , - id="CERGA" , align=left , CERGA Observatory , :Discoveries by the CERGA Observatory, 24 , IAU code#010, 010 , , align=left , CERGA; Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie , align=left , CERGA , - id="CSS" , align=left , Catalina Sky Survey , :Discoveries by the Catalina Sky Survey, 30578 , IAU code#703, 703 , , align=left , CSS; , align=left , CSS , - id="Calar Alto" , align=left , Calar Alto Observatory , :Discoveries by the Calar Alto Observatory, 8 , IAU code#493, 493 , , align=left , Calar Alto Obs.; , align=left , Calar Alto , - id="Calvin College" , align=left , Calvin–Rehoboth Observatory , :Discoveries by the Calvin–Rehoboth Observatory, 114 , IAU code#G98, G98 , , align=left , Calvin–Rehoboth Obs.; in NM, cite: , disc: to Prairie School, all others to Calvin College , align=left , Calvin College; Prairie School , - id="Campinas" , align=left , Campinas Observatory , :Discoveries by the Observatório de Campinas, 1 , IAU code#870, 870 , , align=left , Campinas Obs.; ''Observatório de Campinas'' , align=left , Campinas , - id="Campo Catino" , align=left , Campo Catino Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Campo Catino Astronomical Observatory, 5 , IAU code#468, 468 , , align=left , Campo Catino Obs.; ''Osservatorio Astronomico Campo Catino'' , align=left , Campo Catino , - id="Campo Catino Austral Observatory Survey" , align=left , Campo Catino Austral Observatory Survey , :Discoveries by the Campo Catino Austral Observatory Survey, 5 , IAU code#I10, I10 , , align=left , CAOS; , align=left , Campo Catino Austral Observatory Survey , - id="CINEOS" , align=left , Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey , :Discoveries by CINEOS, 1734 , IAU code#599, 599 , , align=left , CINEOS; , align=left , CINEOS; Campo Imperatore; Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey , - id="Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey" , align=left , Canada–France Ecliptic Plane Survey , :Discoveries by the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey, 2 , IAU code#568, 568 ,
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presumably conducted at CFHT, using generic Mauna Kea obs. code (568) , align=left , Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey , - id="Catalina Station" , align=left , Catalina Station , :Discoveries by the Catalina Station, 1 , IAU code#693, 693 , , align=left , Catalina Stn.; , align=left , Catalina Station , - id="Cavezzo" , align=left , Cavezzo Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cavezzo Observatory, 7 , IAU code#107, 107 , , align=left , Cavezzo Obs.; , align=left , Cavezzo , - id="Cavriana" , align=left , Cavriana Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cavriana Observatory, 2 , IAU code#571, 571 , , align=left , Cavriana Obs.; '':it:Osservatorio di Cavriana, Osservatorio di Cavriana'' , align=left , Cavriana , - id="Cerro Burek" , align=left , Alianza S4 Observatory , :Discoveries by the Alianza S4 Observatory, 126 , IAU code#I08, I08 , , align=left , Alianza S4 Obs.; , align=left , Cerro Burek , - id="Cerro El Roble" , align=left , Cerro El Roble Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cerro El Roble Observatory, 1 , IAU code#805, 805 , , align=left , Cerro El Roble Stn.; , align=left , Cerro El Roble , - id="Cerro Paranal" , align=left , Paranal Observatory , :Discoveries by the Paranal Observatory, 5 , IAU code#309, 309 , , align=left , Paranal Obs.; , align=left , Cerro Paranal , - id="Cerro Tololo" , align=left , Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory , :Discoveries by CTIO, 249 , IAU code#807, 807 , , align=left , Cerro Tololo Obs.; , align=left , Cerro Tololo , - id="Cerro Tololo-LCO" , align=left , Cerro Tololo-LCO , :Discoveries by the Las Cumbres Observatory node at Cerro Tololo, 1 , IAU code#W85, W85, IAU code#W86, W86, IAU code#W87, W87 , , align=left , CTIO-LCO; Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) node at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, CTIO , align=left , Cerro Tololo-LCO B , - id="Chante-Perdrix" , align=left , Chante-Perdrix Observatory , :Discoveries by the Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, 162 , IAU code#A77, A77 , , align=left , Chante-Perdrix Obs.; Observatoire Chante-Perdrix , align=left , Chante-Perdrix , - id="Cielo Profundo" , align=left , Cielo Profundo Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cielo Profundo Observatory, 1 , IAU code#J01, J01 , , align=left , Cielo Profundo Obs.; , align=left , Observatorio Cielo , - id="Colleverde" , align=left , Colleverde di Guidonia Observatory , :Discoveries by the Colleverde di Guidonia Observatory, 2 , IAU code#596, 596 , , align=left , Colleverde Obs.; ''Osservatorio Colleverde di Guidonia'' , align=left , Colleverde , - id="Copenhagen Observatory" , align=left , Copenhagen University Observatory , :Discoveries by the Copenhagen University Observatory, 8 , IAU code#035, 035 , , align=left , Copenhagen Obs.; , align=left , Copenhagen Observatory , - id="Cordell-Lorenz" , align=left , Cordell–Lorenz Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cordell–Lorenz Observatory, 30 , IAU code#850, 850 , , align=left , Cordell–Lorenz Obs.; , align=left , Cordell-Lorenz , - id="Crimean Astrophysical Observatory" , align=left , Crimean Astrophysical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, 13 , IAU code#095, 095 , , align=left , Crimean Astrophysical Obs.; , align=left , Crimean Astrophysical Observatory , - id="Crni Vrh" , align=left , Črni Vrh Observatory , :Discoveries by the Črni Vrh Observatory, 427 , IAU code#106, 106 , , align=left , Črni Vrh; , align=left , Crni Vrh , - id="DECam" , align=left , Dark Energy Camera , :Discoveries by DECam, 81 , IAU code#W84, W84 , , align=left , CTIO-DECam; , align=left , DECam , - id="Dark Energy Survey" , align=left , Dark Energy Survey , :Discoveries by the Dark Energy Survey, 6 , IAU code#W84, W84 , , align=left , CTIO-DES; , align=left , Dark Energy Survey , - id="Dax" , align=left , Dax Observatory , :Discoveries by the Observatoire de Dax, 8 , IAU code#958, 958 , , align=left , Dax Obs.; ''Observatoire de Dax'' , align=left , Dax , - id="Deep Ecliptic Survey" , align=left , Deep Ecliptic Survey , :Discoveries by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, 9 , IAU code#695, 695 , , align=left , DES; , align=left , Deep Ecliptic Survey , - id="Deep Lens Survey" , align=left , Deep Lens Survey , :Discoveries by the Deep Lens Survey, 80 , IAU code#807, 807 ,
, align=left , DLS; , align=left , Deep Lens Survey , - id="Drebach" , align=left , Drebach Observatory , :Discoveries by the Volkssternwarte Drebach, 16 , IAU code#113, 113 , , align=left , Drebach Obs. , align=left , Drebach; Volkssternwarte Drebach , - id="Doc Greiner Research Observatory" , align=left , Doc Greiner Research Observatory , :Discoveries by the Doc Greiner Research Observatory, 1 , IAU code#G48, G48 , , align=left , Greiner Obs.; , align=left , Doc Greiner Research Observatory , - id="EURONEAR" , align=left , European Near Earth Asteroids Research , :Discoveries by EURONEAR, 12 , IAU code#809, 809 , , align=left , EURONEAR; , align=left , EURONEAR , - id="El Centro" , align=left , Desert Wanderer Observatory , :Discoveries by the Desert Wanderer Observatory, 2 , IAU code#G78, G78 , , align=left , Desert Wanderer Obs.; , align=left , El Centro , - id="Farpoint" , align=left , Farpoint Observatory , :Discoveries by the Farpoint Observatory, 137 , IAU code#734, 734 , , align=left , Farpoint Obs.; cite: , NEKAAL, Kansas , align=left , Farpoint; Eskridge , - id="Essen" , align=left , Walter Hohmann Observatory , :Discoveries by the Walter Hohmann Observatory, 11 , IAU code#636, 636 , , align=left , Walter Hohmann Obs.; , align=left , Essen , - id="European Southern Observatory" , align=left , European Southern Observatory , :Discoveries by ESO, 2 , IAU code#809, 809 , , align=left , ESO; , align=left , European Southern Observatory , - id="Everstar" , align=left , Everstar Observatory , :Discoveries by the Everstar Observatory, 3 , IAU code#849, 849 , , align=left , Everstar Obs.; , align=left , Everstar , - id="Eygalayes" , align=left , Eygalayes Observatory , :Discoveries by the Eygalayes Observatory, 1 , IAU code#B44, B44 , , align=left , Eygalayes Obs.; , align=left , Eygalayes , - id="Farra d'Isonzo" , align=left , Farra d'Isonzo Observatory , :Discoveries by the Astronomical Observatory of Farra d'Isonzo, 225 , IAU code#595, 595 , , align=left , Farra d'Isonzo; , align=left , Farra d'Isonzo , - id="Faulkes Telescope Educational Project" , align=left , Faulkes Telescope Educational Project , :Discoveries by the Faulkes Telescope Educational Project, 3 , IAU code#608, 608 , , align=left , Faulkes Project; , align=left , Faulkes Telescope Educational Project , - id="Faulkes Telescope North" , align=left , Faulkes Telescope North , :Discoveries by the Faulkes Telescope North, 5 , IAU code#F65, F65 , , align=left , Haleakala-Faulkes; , align=left , Haleakala , - id="Felix Aguilar Observatory" , align=left , Félix Aguilar Observatory , :Discoveries by the Félix Aguilar Observatory, 63 , IAU code#808, 808 , , align=left , Félix Aguilar Obs.; , align=left , Felix Aguilar Observatory , - id="Fountain Hills" , align=left , Fountain Hills Observatory , :Discoveries by the Fountain Hills Observatory, 35 , IAU code#678, 678 , , align=left , Fountain Hills Obs.; , align=left , Fountain Hills , - id="Frasso Sabino" , align=left , Frasso Sabino Observatory , :Discoveries by the Osservatorio di Frasso Sabino, 2 , IAU code#157, 157 , , align=left , Frasso Sabino Obs.; Osservatorio di Frasso Sabino , align=left , Frasso Sabino , - id="Goodricke-Pigott" , align=left , Goodricke-Pigott Observatory , :Discoveries by the Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, 75 , IAU code#683, 683 , , align=left , Goodricke-Pigott Obs.; , align=left , Goodricke-Pigott , - id="Great Shefford" , align=left , Great Shefford Observatory , :Discoveries by the Great Shefford Observatory, 10 , IAU code#J95, J95 , , align=left , Great Shefford Obs.; , align=left , Great Shefford , - id="Harvard Observatory" , align=left , Harvard College Observatory , :Discoveries by the Harvard College Observatory, 55 , IAU code#800, 800, IAU code#802, 802 , , align=left , Harvard Obs.; , align=left , Harvard Observatory , - id="Haute Provence" , align=left , Haute-Provence Observatory , :Discoveries by the Haute-Provence Observatory, 5 , IAU code#511, 511 , , align=left , Haute-Provence Obs.; , align=left , Haute Provence; Institute d'Astrophysics , - id="Hawkeye" , align=left , Hawkeye Observatory , :Discoveries by the Hawkeye Observatory, 1 , IAU code#H52, H52 , , align=left , Hawkeye Obs.; , align=left , Hawkeye , - id="Herrenberg" , align=left , Herrenberg Observatory , :Discoveries by the Herrenberg Observatory, 1 , IAU code#240, 240 , , align=left , Herrenberg Obs.; , align=left , Herrenberg , - id="Hibiscus" , align=left , Hibiscus Observatory , :Discoveries by the Hibiscus Observatory, 3 , IAU code#F84, F84 , , align=left , Hibiscus Obs.; , align=left , Hibiscus , - id="Hormersdorf" , align=left , Hormersdorf Observatory , :Discoveries by the Hormersdorf Observatory, 6 , IAU code#A35, A35 , , align=left , Hormersdorf Obs.; , align=left , Hormersdorf , - id="Hunters Hill" , align=left , Hunters Hill Observatory , :Discoveries by the Hunters Hill Observatory, 1 , IAU code#E14, E14 , , align=left , Hunters Hill Obs.; , align=left , Hunters Hill , - id="IAA-AI" , align=left , IAA-AI Atacama , :Discoveries by IAA-AI Atacama, 2 , IAU code#I16, I16 , , align=left , IAA-AI; , align=left , IAA-AI , - id="INAS" , align=left , International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey , :Discoveries by INAS, 8 , IAU code#675, 675 , , align=left , INAS; , align=left , INAS , - id="IRAS" , align=left , Infrared Astronomical Satellite , :Discoveries by IRAS, 4 , IAU code#500, 500 , , align=left , IRAS; , align=left , IRAS , - id="ISON" , align=left , International Scientific Optical Network , :Discoveries by the International Scientific Optical Network, 10 , IAU code#H15, H15 , , align=left , ISON; , align=left , ISON , - id="ASC-Kislovodsk" , align=left , ASC-Kislovodsk Observatory , :Discoveries by the ASC-Kislovodsk Observatory, 11 , IAU code#D00, D00 , , align=left , ASC-Kislovodsk; , align=left , ASC-Kislovodsk; ISON-Kislovodsk Observatory , - id="Indiana University" , align=left , Indiana Asteroid Program , :Discoveries by Indiana University (Indiana Asteroid Program), 119 , IAU code#760, 760 , , align=left , Indiana University; , align=left , Indiana University , - id="Ishigakijima" , align=left , Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory , 2 , IAU code#D44, D44 , , align=left , Ishigakijima Obs.; disc: and , align=left , Ishigakijima , - id="JATE Asteroid Survey" , align=left , JATE Asteroid Survey , , IAU code#461, 461 , , align=left , JATE Asteroid Survey; , align=left , JATE Asteroid Survey , - id="Japan Spaceguard Association" , align=left , Japan Spaceguard Association , :Discoveries by the Japan Spaceguard Association, 1 , IAU code#381, 381 , , align=left , JSGA; , align=left , Japan Spaceguard Association , - id="Jarnac" , align=left , Jarnac Observatory , :Discoveries by the Jarnac Observatory, 168 , IAU code#G92, G92 , , align=left , Jarnac Obs.; , align=left , Jarnac , - id="John J. McCarthy" , align=left , John J. McCarthy Observatory , :Discoveries by the John J. McCarthy Observatory, 1 , IAU code#932, 932 , , align=left , John J. McCarthy Obs.; , align=left , John J. McCarthy , - id="Jonathan B. Postel" , align=left , Jonathan B. Postel Observatory , :Discoveries by the Jonathan B. Postel Observatory, 1 , IAU code#201, 201 , , align=left , Jonathan B. Postel Obs.; , align=left , Jonathan B. Postel , - id="Junk Bond" , align=left , Junk Bond Observatory , :Discoveries by the Junk Bond Observatory, 53 , IAU code#701, 701 , , align=left , Junk Bond Obs.; , align=left , Junk Bond , - id="Vicques" , align=left , Jura Observatory , :Discoveries by the Jura Observatory, 6 , IAU code#185, 185 , , align=left , Jura Obs.; , align=left , Vicques , - id="Kepler" , align=left , Kepler (spacecraft) , :Discoveries by Kepler, 1 , IAU code#C55, C55 , , align=left , Kepler; , align=left , KEPLER , - id="KLENOT" , align=left , Klet Observatory near Earth and other unusual objects observations team and telescope , :Discoveries by KLENOT, 36 , IAU code#246, 246 , , align=left , KLENOT; , align=left , KLENOT , - id="Kachina" , align=left , Kachina Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kachina Observatory, 5 , IAU code#G89, G89 , , align=left , Kachina Obs.; , align=left , Kachina , - id="Kambah" , align=left , Kambah Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kambah Observatory, 1 , IAU code#415, 415 , , align=left , Kambah Obs.; , align=left , Kambah , - id="Kiso" , align=left , Kiso Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kiso Observatory, 3 , IAU code#381, 381 , , align=left , Kiso Obs.; , align=left , Kiso , - id="Kitt Peak" , align=left , Kitt Peak National Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kitt Peak National Observatory, 104 , IAU code#695, 695 , , align=left , Kitt Peak Obs.; , align=left , Kitt Peak , - id="Klet" , align=left , Kleť Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kleť Observatory, 301 , IAU code#046, 046 , , align=left , Kleť Obs.; , align=left , Klet , - id="Kvistaberg" , align=left , Kvistaberg Observatory , :Discoveries by the Kvistaberg Observatory, 6 , IAU code#049, 049 , , align=left , Kvistaberg Obs.; , align=left , Kvistaberg , - id="LINEAR" , align=left , Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research , :Discoveries by LINEAR, 150558 , IAU code#704, 704 , , align=left , LINEAR; , align=left , LINEAR , - id="LONEOS" , align=left , Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search , :Discoveries by LONEOS, 22852 , IAU code#688, 688 , , align=left , LONEOS; , align=left , LONEOS; Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Asteroid Survey , - id="LUSS" , align=left , Lulin Sky Survey , :Discoveries by LUSS, 305 , IAU code#D35, D35 , , align=left , LUSS; , align=left , LUSS , - id="La Palma" , align=left , Roque de los Muchachos Observatory , :Discoveries by the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, 39 , IAU code#950, 950 , , align=left , La Palma Obs.; , align=left , La Palma , - id="La Plata" , align=left , La Plata Observatory , :Discoveries by the La Plata Astronomical Observatory, 5 , IAU code#839, 839 , , align=left , La Plata Obs.; , align=left , La Plata , - id="La Silla" , align=left , La Silla Observatory , :Discoveries by the La Silla Observatory, 27 , IAU code#I05, I05 , , align=left , La Silla Obs.; , align=left , La Silla , - id="Lake Tekapo" , align=left , Mount John University Observatory , :Discoveries by the Mount John University Observatory, 5 , IAU code#474, 474 , , align=left , Mount John Obs.; , align=left , Lake Tekapo , - id="Las Campanas" , align=left , Las Campanas Observatory , :Discoveries by the Las Campanas Observatory, 1 , IAU code#304, 304 , , align=left , Las Campanas Obs.; , align=left , Las Campanas , - id="Les Engarouines" , align=left , Les Engarouines Observatory , :Discoveries by the Les Engarouines Observatory, 3 , IAU code#A14, A14 , , align=left , Les Engarouines Obs.; Observatoire des Engarouines, Laurent Bernasconi, , align=left , Les Engarouines , - id="Lick Observatory" , align=left , Lick Observatory , :Discoveries by the Lick Observatory, 4 , IAU code#662, 662 , , align=left , Lick Obs.; , align=left , Lick Observatory , - id="LightBuckets" , align=left , LightBuckets Observatory , :Discoveries by the LightBuckets Observatory, 4 , IAU code#B10, B10, IAU code#H11, H11 ,
, align=left , LightBuckets Obs.; , align=left , LightBuckets , - id="Lincoln Laboratory ETS" , align=left , Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site , :Discoveries by the Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site, 8 , IAU code#704, 704 , , align=left , Lincoln Lab ETS; , align=left , Lincoln Laboratory ETS; Socorro , - id="Linz" , align=left , Davidschlag Observatory , :Discoveries by the Davidschlag Observatory, 5 , IAU code#540, 540 , , align=left , Davidschlag Obs.; Linz Observatory , align=left , Linz , - id="Loiano" , align=left , Loiano Observatory , :Discoveries by the Loiano Observatory, 1 , IAU code#598, 598 , , align=left , Loiano Obs.; ''Osservatorio Astronomico di Loiano'' , align=left , Loiano , - id="Los Molinos" , align=left , Los Molinos Observatory , :Discoveries by the Los Molinos Observatory, 2 , IAU code#844, 844 , , align=left , Los Molinos Obs.; , align=left , Los Molinos , - id="Lowell Observatory" , align=left , Lowell Observatory , :Discoveries by the Lowell Observatory, 3 , IAU code#690, 690 , , align=left , Lowell Obs.; , align=left , Lowell Observatory , - id="Lowell Discovery Telescope" , align=left , Lowell Discovery Telescope , :Discoveries by the Lowell Discovery Telescope, 1 , IAU code#G37, G37 , , align=left , Lowell Discovery Tel.; , align=left , Flagstaff , - id="Lulin" , align=left , Lulin Observatory , :Discoveries by the Lulin Observatory, 24 , IAU code#D35, D35 , , align=left , Lulin Obs.; , align=left , Lulin , - id="ESA OGS" , align=left , OGS Telescope , :Discoveries by ESA OGS, 203 , IAU code#J04, J04 , , align=left , ESA OGS; , align=left , ESA OGS , - id="Lumezzane" , align=left , Lumezzane Observatory , :Discoveries by the Lumezzane Observatory, 1 , IAU code#130, 130 , , align=left , Lumezzane Obs.; ''Osservatorio Astronomico Serafino Zani'' , align=left , Lumezzane , - id="Madonna di Dossobuono" , align=left , Madonna di Dossobuono Observatory , :Discoveries by the Osservatorio Madonna di Dossobuono, 7 , IAU code#560, 560 , , align=left , Madonna di Dossobuono Obs.; ''(Osservatorio Madonna di Dossobuono)'' , align=left , Madonna di Dossobuono , - id="Majdanak" , align=left , Majdanak Observatory , :Discoveries by the Majdanak Observatory, 3 , IAU code#188, 188 , , align=left , Majdanak Obs.; , align=left , Majdanak , - id="Malaga" , align=left , Málaga Observatory , :Discoveries by the Málaga Observatory, 1 , IAU code#J40, J40 , , align=left , Málaga Obs.; , align=left , Malaga , - id="Consell" , align=left , Consell Observatory , :Discoveries by the Consell Observatory, 2 , IAU code#176, 176 , , align=left , Consell Obs.; ''(Observatorio Astronómico de Consell)'' , align=left , Consell , - id="Marxuquera" , align=left , Marxuquera Observatory , :Discoveries by the Marxuquera Observatory, 1 , IAU code#952, 952 , , align=left , Marxuquera Obs.; ''Observatori Astronòmic Marxuquera'' , align=left , Marxuquera , - id="MASTER-SAAO" , align=left , MASTER-SAAO Telescope , , IAU code#K95, K95 , , align=left , MASTER; at South African Astronomical Observatory , align=left , MASTER , - id="Mauna Kea" , align=left , Mauna Kea Observatories , :Discoveries by the Mauna Kea Observatories, 476 , IAU code#568, 568 , , align=left , Mauna Kea Obs.; , align=left , Mauna Kea , - id="Mayhill" , align=left , iTelescope Observatory , :Discoveries by the iTelescope Observatory, 43 , IAU code#H06, H06, IAU code#H10, H10 , , align=left , iTelescope Obs.; , align=left , Mayhill , - id="McDonald Observatory" , align=left , McDonald Observatory , :Discoveries by the McDonald Observatory, 2 , IAU code#711, 711, IAU code#V37, V37 , , align=left , McDonald Obs.; , align=left , McDonald Observatory , - id="Merida" , align=left , Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory, 1 , IAU code#303, 303 , , align=left , Llano del Hato Obs.; , align=left , Mérida , - id="Falera" , align=left , Mirasteilas Observatory , :Discoveries by the Mirasteilas Observatory, 1 , IAU code#B67, B67 , , align=left , Mirasteilas Obs.; , align=left , Falera , - id="Modra" , align=left , Modra Observatory , :Discoveries by the Modra Observatory, 15 , IAU code#118, 118 , , align=left , Modra Obs.; , align=left , Modra , - id="Moletai" , align=left , Molėtai Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 43 , IAU code#152, 152 , , align=left , Molėtai Obs.; , align=left , Moletai , - id="Monte Viseggi" , align=left , Monte Viseggi Observatory , :Discoveries by the Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Viseggi, 4 , IAU code#126, 126 , , align=left , Monte Viseggi Obs.; ''Osservatorio Monte Viseggi'' , align=left , Monte Viseggi , - id="Moriyama" , align=left , Moriyama Observatory , :Discoveries by the Moriyama Observatory, 1 , IAU code#900, 900 , , align=left , Moriyama Obs.; , align=left , Moriyama , - id="Mt. Lemmon Survey" , align=left , Mount Lemmon Survey , :Discoveries by MLS, 89589 , IAU code#G96, G96 , , align=left , Mount Lemmon Survey; , align=left , Mt. Lemmon Survey; Mount Lemmon Survey , - id="Mount Lemmon Sky Center" , align=left , Mount Lemmon Sky Center , :Discoveries by the Mount Lemmon Sky Center, 1 , IAU code#G84, G84 , , align=left , Mount Lemmon Sky Center; lowest , align=left , Mount Lemmon SkyCenter; Mount Lemmon SkyCe , - id="NEAT" , align=left , Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking , :Discoveries by NEAT, 44263 , IAU code#566, 566, IAU code#566, 644 , , align=left , NEAT; , align=left , NEAT , - id="Nachi-Katsuura" , align=left , Nachi-Katsuura Observatory , :Discoveries by the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory, 1 , IAU code#905, 905 , , align=left , Nachi-Katsuura Obs.; , align=left , Nachi-Katsuura , - id="Nacogdoches" , align=left , SFA Observatory , :Discoveries by the SFA Observatory, 4 , IAU code#740, 740 , , align=left , SFA Obs.; , align=left , Nacogdoches , - id="Nakagawa" , align=left , Nakagawa Observatory , :Discoveries by the Nakagawa Observatory, 1 , IAU code#D74, D74 , , align=left , Nakagawa Obs.; , align=left , Nakagawa , - id="Nanchuan" , align=left , Nanchuan Observatory , :Discoveries by the Nanchuan Observatory, 1 , IAU code#D14, D14 , , align=left , Nanchuan Obs.; , align=left , Nanchuan , - id="Needville" , align=left , George Observatory , :Discoveries by the George Observatory, 220 , IAU code#735, 735 , , align=left , Needville Obs.; , align=left , Needville , - id="La Palma-NEON" , align=left , Network of European Observatories in the North , :Discoveries by NEON, 1 , IAU code#J50, J50 , , align=left , NEON; La Palma Obs. , align=left , La Palma-NEON , - id="New Horizons KBO Search" , align=left , New Horizons KBO Search , :Discoveries by the New Horizons KBO Search, 2 , IAU code#250, 250, IAU code#266, 266–269 , , align=left , New Horizons KBO Search; first discovery (516977) 2012 HZ84, (516977); lowest numbered discovery 486958 Arrokoth, (486958) , align=left , New Horizons KBO Search; New Horizons Search Team , - id="New Milford" , align=left , John J. McCarthy Observatory , :Discoveries by the John J. McCarthy Observatory, 3 , IAU code#932, 932 , , align=left , John J. McCarthy Obs.; , align=left , New Milford , - id="Nyrola" , align=left , Nyrölän observatorio , :Discoveries by the Nyrölän observatorio, 1 , IAU code#174, 174 , , align=left , Nyrölä; , align=left , Nyrola , - id="Nyukasa" , align=left , Mount Nyukasa Station , :Discoveries by the Mount Nyukasa Station, 116 , IAU code#408, 408 , , align=left , Mount Nyukasa Stn.; , align=left , Nyukasa , - id="OAM" , align=left , Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca , :Discoveries by the Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca, 2869 , IAU code#620, 620, IAU code#J75, J75 , , align=left , OAM Obs.; Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca (620), La Sagra Observatory (J75) , align=left , OAM; OAM Observatory , - id="OCA-Anza" , align=left , OCA-Anza Observatory , :Discoveries by the Orange County Astronomers - Anza, 1 , IAU code#643, 643 , , align=left , OCA-Anza; Orange County Astronomers - Anza , align=left , OCA-Anza , - id="ODAS" , align=left , OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey , :Discoveries by ODAS, 1089 , IAU code#910, 910 , , align=left , ODAS; , align=left , ODAS , - id="Oak Ridge Observatory" , align=left , Oak Ridge Observatory , :Discoveries by the Oak Ridge Observatory, 38 , IAU code#801, 801 , , align=left , Oak Ridge Observatory; , align=left , Oak Ridge Observatory , - id="Oakley" , align=left , Oakley Observatory , :Discoveries by the Oakley Observatory, 3 , IAU code#916, 916, IAU code#E09, E09 ,
, align=left , Oakley Obs.; , align=left , Oakley , - id="Observatoire Naef" , align=left , Observatory Naef Épendes , :Discoveries by the Observatory Naef Épendes, 24 , IAU code#A13, A13 , , align=left , Naef Obs.; , align=left , Observatoire Naef , - id="Observatorio Montcabre" , align=left , Montcabre Observatory , :Discoveries by the Montcabre Observatory, 1 , IAU code#213, 213 , , align=left , Montcabre Obs.; ''Observatorio Montcabre'' , align=left , Observatorio Montcabre , - id="Olathe" , align=left , Sunflower Observatory , :Discoveries by the Sunflower Observatory, 10 , IAU code#739, 739, IAU code#849, 849 , , align=left , Olathe; , align=left , Olathe , - id="Ondrejov" , align=left , Ondřejov Observatory , :Discoveries by the Ondřejov Observatory, 25 , IAU code#557, 557 , , align=left , Ondřejov Obs.; (Observatoř Ondřejov), cite , align=left , Ondrejov , - id="Oohira" , align=left , Nihondaira Observatory Oohira Station , :Discoveries by the Nihondaira Observatory, 6 , IAU code#385, 385 , , align=left , Oohira Stn.; , align=left , Oohira , - id="Osservatorio Cima Rest" , align=left , Cima Rest Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cima Rest Observatory, 1 , IAU code#B11, B11 , , align=left , Cima Rest Obs.; ''Osservatorio Cima Rest'' , align=left , Osservatorio Cima Rest , - id="Osservatorio Polino" , align=left , Polino Observatory , :Discoveries by the Osservatorio Polino, 2 , IAU code#609, 609 , , align=left , Polino Obs.; ''Osservatorio Polino'' , align=left , Osservatorio Polino , - id="Osservatorio San Vittore" , align=left , San Vittore Observatory , :Discoveries by the Osservatorio San Vittore, 99 , IAU code#552, 552 , , align=left , San Vittore Obs.; ''Osservatorio San Vittore'' , align=left , Osservatorio San Vittore , - id="Ottmarsheim" , align=left , Ottmarsheim Observatory , :Discoveries by the Ottmarsheim Observatory, 15 , IAU code#224, 224 , , align=left , Ottmarsheim Obs.; ''Observatoire d'Ottmarsheim'' , align=left , Ottmarsheim , - id="OSSOS" , align=left , Outer Solar System Origins Survey , :Discoveries by OSSOS, 40 , IAU code#568, 568 , , align=left , OSSOS; lowest numbered discovery: , align=left , Outer Solar System Origins Survey , - id="Oukaimeden" , align=left , Oukaïmeden Observatory , :Discoveries by the Oukaïmeden Observatory, 1 , IAU code#J43, J43 , , align=left , Oukaïmeden Obs.; , align=left , Oukaimeden , - id="PCAS" , align=left , Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey , :Discoveries by PCAS, 20 , IAU code#675, 675 , , align=left , PCAS; , align=left , PCAS , - id="PMO NEO Survey Program" , align=left , PMO NEO Survey Program , :Discoveries by the PMO NEO Survey Program, 761 , IAU code#330, 330 , , align=left , PMO NEO; , align=left , PMO NEO Survey Program; PMO Neo Survey Program , - id="Palomar" , align=left , Palomar Observatory , :Discoveries by the Palomar Observatory, 60 , IAU code#675, 675 , , align=left , Palomar Obs.; , align=left , Palomar , - id="Palomar Transient Factory" , align=left , Palomar Transient Factory , :Discoveries by the Palomar Transient Factory, 143 , IAU code#I41, I41 , , align=left , PTF; , align=left , Palomar Transient Factory , - id="Pan-STARRS 1" , align=left , Pan-STARRS , :Discoveries by Pan-STARRS, 23414 , IAU code#F51, F51 , , align=left , Pan-STARRS; , align=left , Pan-STARRS 1; Pan-STARRS1 , - id="Pan-STARRS 2" , align=left , Pan-STARRS 2 , :Discoveries by Pan-STARRS 2, 52 , IAU code#F52, F52 , , align=left , Pan-STARRS 2; first discovery , align=left , Pan-STARRS 2 , - id="Peking Observatory" , align=left , Beijing Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, 1 , IAU code#324, 324, IAU code#327, 327 , , align=left , Peking Obs.; , align=left , Peking Observatory , - id="Perth Observatory" , align=left , Perth Observatory , :Discoveries by the Perth Observatory, 29 , IAU code#319, 319, IAU code#322, 322 , , align=left , Perth Obs.; , align=left , Perth Observatory , - id="Pic du Midi" , align=left , Pic du Midi Observatory , :Discoveries by the Pic du Midi Observatory, 9 , IAU code#586, 586 , , align=left , Pic du Midi Obs.; french: Observatoire du Pic du Midi, cite: , align=left , Pic du Midi , - id="Pises" , align=left , Pises Observatory , :Discoveries by the Pises Observatory, 44 , IAU code#122, 122 , , align=left , Pises Obs.; ''Observatoire des Pises'' , align=left , Pises , - id="Piszkesteto" , align=left , Piszkéstető Station , :Discoveries by the Piszkéstető Station, 5 , IAU code#461, 461, IAU code#561, 561 , , align=left , Piszkéstető Stn.; , align=left , Piszkesteto , - id="Pla D'Arguines" , align=left , Pla D'Arguines Observatory , :Discoveries by the Observatorio Astronomico Pla D'Arguines, 43 , IAU code#941, 941 , , align=left , Pla D'Arguines Obs.; ''Observatorio Astronomico Pla D'Arguines'' , align=left , Pla D'Arguines , - id="Pleiade" , align=left , Pleiade Observatory , :Discoveries by the Pleiade Observatory, 1 , IAU code#H96, H96 , , align=left , Pleiade Obs.; , align=left , Pleiade , - id="Powell" , align=left , Powell Observatory , :Discoveries by the Powell Observatory, 22 , IAU code#649, 649 , , align=left , Powell Obs.; , align=left , Powell , - id="Prairie Grass" , align=left , Prairie Grass Observatory , :Discoveries by the Prairie Grass Observatory, 2 , IAU code#H59, H59 , , align=left , Prairie Grass Obs.; , align=left , Prairie Grass , - id="Puckett" , align=left , Puckett Observatory , :Discoveries by the Puckett Observatory, 1 , IAU code#752, 752, IAU code#764, 764 , , align=left , Puckett Obs.; , align=left , Puckett , - id="Purple Mountain Observatory" , align=left , Purple Mountain Observatory , :Discoveries by the Purple Mountain Observatory, 150 , IAU code#330, 330 , , align=left , Purple Mountain Obs.; , align=left , Purple Mountain Observatory , - id="Q. s. observers" , align=left , Q. s. observers , :Discoveries by the Q. s. observers, 7 , IAU code#G96, G96, IAU code#691, 691, IAU code#F51, F51, IAU code#D03, D03 , , align=left , Q. s. observers; , align=left , Q. s. observers; observers, q.-s.; observers, Q. s.; q.-s. observers , - id="Tincana" , align=left , Rantiga Observatory , 1 , IAU code#D03, D03 , , align=left , Rantiga Obs.; Rantiga Osservatorio, Carpineti , align=left , Tincana , - id="Reedy Creek" , align=left , Reedy Creek Observatory , :Discoveries by the Reedy Creek Observatory, 1 , IAU code#428, 428 , , align=left , Reedy Creek Obs.; , align=left , Reedy Creek , - id="Remanzacco" , align=left , Remanzacco Observatory , :Discoveries by the Remanzacco Observatory, 9 , IAU code#473, 473 , , align=left , Remanzacco Obs.; , align=left , Remanzacco , - id="Royal Observatory Edinburgh" , align=left , Royal Observatory Edinburgh , :Discoveries by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, 7 , IAU code#277, 277 ,
, align=left , Edinburgh Obs.; , align=left , Royal Observatory Edinburgh , - id="Stroncone" , align=left , Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory, 55 , IAU code#589, 589 , , align=left , Santa Lucia Obs.; , align=left , Stroncone , - id="SM Montmagastrell" , align=left , Santa Maria de Montmagastrell Observatory , :Discoveries by the Santa Maria de Montmagastrell Observatory, 3 , IAU code#B74, B74 , , align=left , Montmagastrell Obs.; Observatory Santa Maria de Montmagastrell , align=left , SM Montmagastrell , - id="Saint-Sulpice" , align=left , Saint-Sulpice Observatory , :Discoveries by the Saint-Sulpice Observatory, 19 , IAU code#947, 947 , , align=left , Saint-Sulpice Obs.; , align=left , Saint-Sulpice , - id="Saji" , align=left , Saji Observatory , :Discoveries by the Saji Observatory, 22 , IAU code#867, 867 , , align=left , Saji Obs.; , align=left , Saji , - id="San Marcello" , align=left , Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Pistoia Mountains Observatory, 36 , IAU code#104, 104 , , align=left , Pistoia Mountains Obs.; Italian: ''Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese'' , align=left , San Marcello , - id="San Pedro Martir" , align=left , National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico) , :Discoveries by the National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico), 1 , IAU code#679, 679 , , align=left , OAN Mexico; , align=left , San Pedro Martir , - id="Sandlot" , align=left , Sandlot Observatory , :Discoveries by the Sandlot Observatory, 6 , IAU code#H36, H36 , , align=left , Sandlot Obs.; , align=left , Sandlot , - id="Schiaparelli" , align=left , Schiaparelli Observatory , :Discoveries by the Schiaparelli Observatory, 7 , IAU code#204, 204 , , align=left , Schiaparelli Obs.; , align=left , Schiaparelli , - id="SDSS Collaboration" , align=left , SDSS Collaboration , :Discoveries by the SDSS Collaboration, 706 , IAU code#645, 645 (IAU code#705, 705) , , align=left , SDSS Collaboration; ,
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, align=left , SDSS Collaboration; S. Collaboration , - id="Shandong University" , align=left , Shandong University Observatory , :Discoveries by Shandong University, 16 , IAU code#D39, D39 , , align=left , Shandong University Obs.; , align=left , Shandong University , - id="Shishikui" , align=left , Shishikui Observatory , 1 , IAU code#, 342 , , align=left , Shishikui; , align=left , Shishikui , - id="Siding Spring" , align=left , Siding Spring Observatory , :Discoveries by the Siding Spring Observatory, 4 , IAU code#413, 413 , , align=left , Siding Spring Obs.; , align=left , Siding Spring , - id="Siding Spring Survey" , align=left , Siding Spring Survey , :Discoveries by SSS, 3505 , IAU code#E12, E12 , , align=left , SSS; , align=left , Siding Spring Survey , - id="Sierra Nevada" , align=left , Sierra Nevada Observatory , :Discoveries by the Sierra Nevada Observatory, 5 , IAU code#J86, J86 , , align=left , Sierra Nevada Obs.; , align=left , Sierra Nevada , - id="Sierra Stars" , align=left , Sierra Stars Observatory , :Discoveries by the Sierra Stars Observatory, 8 , IAU code#G68, G68 , , align=left , Sierra Stars Obs.; , align=left , Sierra Stars , - id="Silver Spring" , align=left , Silver Spring Observatory , :Discoveries by the Silver Spring Observatory, 2 , IAU code#H85, H85 , , align=left , Silver Spring Obs.; , align=left , Silver Spring , - id="Simeis" , align=left , Simeiz Observatory , :Discoveries by the Simeiz Observatory, 1 , IAU code#094, 094 , , align=left , Simeiz Obs.; , align=left , Simeis , - id="Skylive" , align=left , Skylive Observatory , :Discoveries by the Skylive Observatory, 1 , IAU code#B40, B40 , , align=left , Skylive Obs.; , align=left , Skylive , - id="Sloan Digital Sky Survey" , align=left , Sloan Digital Sky Survey , :Discoveries by SDSS, 1874 , IAU code#645, 645 , , align=left , SDSS; , align=left , Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Sloan Digital Sky Survey Linked Object Catalog team , - id="SONEAR" , align=left , SONEAR Observatory , :Discoveries by the SONEAR Observatory, 3 , IAU code#Y00, Y00 , , align=left , SONEAR Obs.; , align=left , SONEAR , - id="Sormano" , align=left , Sormano Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Sormano Astronomical Observatory, 1 , IAU code#587, 587 , , align=left , Sormano Obs.; , align=left , Sormano , - id="Spacewatch" , align=left , Spacewatch , :Discoveries by the Spacewatch project, 176020 , IAU code#691, 691 , , align=left , Spacewatch; , align=left , Spacewatch , - id="Space Surveillance Telescope" , align=left , Space Surveillance Telescope , :Discoveries by the Space Surveillance Telescope, 10 , IAU code#G45, G45 , , align=left , Space Surveillance Telescope; lowest numbered discovery : , align=left , Space Surveillance Telescope , - id="St. Veran" , align=left , Observatory of Saint-Veran , :Discoveries by the Saint-Véran Observatory, 45 , IAU code#615, 615 , , align=left , Saint-Véran Obs.; , align=left , St. Veran , - id="St Pardon de Conques" , align=left , Saint Pardon de Conques Observatory , , IAU code#I93, I93 , , align=left , St Pardon de Conques Obs.; , align=left , St Pardon de Conques , - id="Starkenburg" , align=left , Starkenburg Observatory , :Discoveries by the Starkenburg Observatory, 53 , IAU code#611, 611 , , align=left , Starkenburg Obs.; , align=left , Starkenburg; Heppenheim , - id="Steward" , align=left , Steward Observatory , :Discoveries by the Steward Observatory, 1 , IAU code#692, 692 , , align=left , Steward Obs.; if code 691, its Kitt-Peak Spacewatch , align=left , Steward , - id="Stony Ridge" , align=left , Stony Ridge Observatory , :Discoveries by the Stony Ridge Observatory, 2 , IAU code#671, 671 , , align=left , Stony Ridge Obs.; , align=left , Stony Ridge , - id="SKADS" , align=left , Sub-Kilometer Asteroid Diameter Survey , :Discoveries by SKADS, 21 , IAU code#695, 695 , , align=left , SKADS
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, align=left , SKADS , - id="Suno" , align=left , Suno Observatory , :Discoveries by the Suno Observatory, 4 , IAU code#147, 147 , , align=left , Suno Obs.; ''Osservatorio Astronomico di Suno'' , align=left , Suno; Osservatorio Astronomico di Suno , - id="Sutherland-LCO" , align=left , Sutherland-LCO , :Discoveries by the Las Cumbres Observatory node at Sutherland, 1 , IAU code#K91, K91, IAU code#K92, K92, IAU code#K93, K93 , , align=left , SAAO-LCO; Las Cumbres Observatory at South African Astronomical Observatory , align=left , Sutherland-LCO C , - id="Wrightwood" , align=left , Table Mountain Observatory , :Discoveries by the Table Mountain Observatory, 2 , IAU code#673, 673, IAU code#673, 673 , , align=left , Table Mountain Obs.; , align=left , Wrightwood , - id="Taunus" , align=left , Taunus Observatory , :Discoveries by the Taunus Observatory, 3 , IAU code#B01, B01 , , align=left , Taunus Obs.; , align=left , Taunus , - id="Teide" , align=left , Teide Observatory , :Discoveries by the Teide Observatory, 6 , IAU code#954, 954 , , align=left , Teide Obs.; , align=left , Teide , - id="Tenagra" , align=left , Tenagra Observatory , :Discoveries by the Tenagra Observatory, 6 , IAU code#848, 848 , , align=left , Tenagra Obs.; , align=left , Tenagra; Cottage Grove , - id="Tenagra II" , align=left , Tenagra II Observatory , :Discoveries by the Tenagra II Observatory, 117 , IAU code#926, 926 , , align=left , Tenagra II Obs.; , align=left , Tenagra II , - id="Terre Haute" , align=left , Oakley Observatory , :Discoveries by the Oakley Observatory, 1 , IAU code#H22, H22 , , align=left , Oakley Obs.; , align=left , Terre Haute , - id="Terskol" , align=left , Terskol Observatory , :Discoveries by the Terskol Observatory, 3 , IAU code#B18, B18 , , align=left , Terskol Obs.; , align=left , Terskol , - id="Three Buttes" , align=left , Three Buttes Observatory , :Discoveries by the Three Buttes Observatory, 2 , IAU code#G90, G90 , , align=left , Three Buttes Obs.; , align=left , Three Buttes , - id="Tiki" , align=left , Tiki Observatory , :Discoveries by the Tiki Observatory, 2 , IAU code#F85, F85 , , align=left , Tiki Obs.; Puna'auia , align=left , Tiki , - id="Trois-Rivieres" , align=left , Cégep de Trois-Rivières Observatory , :Discoveries by the Cégep de Trois-Rivières Observatory, 1 , IAU code#924, 924 , , align=left , Cégep de Trois-Rivières Obs.; ''Observatoire du Cégep de Trois-Rivières'' , align=left , Trois-Rivieres , - id="Turtle Star" , align=left , Turtle Star Observatory , :Discoveries by the Turtle Star Observatory, 2 , IAU code#628, 628 , , align=left , Turtle Star Obs.; cite: , disc: , , align=left , Turtle Star; Mulheim-Ruhr , - id="Tzec Maun" , align=left , Tzec Maun Observatory , :Discoveries by the Tzec Maun Observatory, 18 , IAU code#D25, D25, IAU code#H10, H10 ,
, align=left , Tzec Maun Obs.; , align=left , Tzec Maun , - id="UESAC" , align=left , Uppsala–ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets , :Discoveries by UESAC, 1123 , IAU code#809, 809 , , align=left , UESAC; , align=left , UESAC; UESAC, Comets , - id="Uccle" , align=left , Royal Observatory of Belgium , :Discoveries by the Royal Observatory of Belgium, 13 , IAU code#012, 012 , , align=left , Uccle Obs.; , align=left , Uccle , - id="Uenohara" , align=left , Uenohara Observatory , :Discoveries by the Uenohara Observatory, 2 , IAU code#376, 376 , , align=left , Uenohara Obs.; , align=left , Uenohara , - id="University of Chile" , align=left , National Astronomical Observatory (Chile) , :Discoveries by the University of Chile, 3 , IAU code#805, 805 , , align=left , University of Chile; , align=left , University of Chile , - id="Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey" , align=left , Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey , :Discoveries by the Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey, 262 , IAU code#049, 049 ,
, align=left , UDAS; , align=left , Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey , - id="Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey" , align=left , Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey , :Discoveries by the Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey, 62 , IAU code#809, 809 ,
, align=left , UDTS; , align=left , Uppsala-DLR Trojan Survey , - id="Valinhos" , align=left , Valinhos Observatory , :Discoveries by the Valinhos Observatory, 2 , IAU code#860, 860 , , align=left , Valinhos Obs.; , align=left , Valinhos , - id="Vallemare Borbona" , align=left , Vallemare di Borbona Observatory , :Discoveries by the Vallemare di Borbona Observatory, 2 , IAU code#A55, A55 , , align=left , Vallemare di Borbona Obs.; ''Osservatorio Astronomico Vallemare di Borbona'' , align=left , Vallemare Borbona , - id="Valmeca" , align=left , Valmeca Observatory , :Discoveries by the Valmeca Observatory, 6 , IAU code#184, 184 , , align=left , Valmeca Obs.; , align=left , Valmeca , - id="Mount Graham" , align=left , Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope , :Discoveries by Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, 7 , IAU code#290, 290, IAU code#G83, G83 , , align=left , VATT; code 290, prolematic Mt. Gramham also for LBT (G83) , align=left , Mount Graham , - id="Village-Neuf" , align=left , Village-Neuf Observatory , :Discoveries by the Village-Neuf Observatory, 2 , IAU code#138, 138 , , align=left , Village-Neuf Obs.; , align=left , Village-Neuf , - id="Visnjan" , align=left , Višnjan Observatory , :Discoveries by the Višnjan Observatory, 108 , IAU code#120, 120 , , align=left , Višnjan Obs.; , align=left , Visnjan , - id="Whipple" , align=left , Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory , :Discoveries by the Whipple Observatory, 1 , IAU code#696, 696 , , align=left , Whipple Obs.; , align=left , Whipple , - id="WISE" , align=left , Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , :Discoveries by WISE, 4639 , IAU code#C51, C51 , , align=left , WISE; , align=left , WISE , - id="Wildberg" , align=left , Wildberg Observatory , :Discoveries by the Wildberg Observatory, 1 , IAU code#198, 198 , , align=left , Wildberg Obs.; , align=left , Wildberg , - id="Wise" , align=left , Wise Observatory , :Discoveries by the Wise Observatory, 19 , IAU code#097, 097 , , align=left , Wise Obs.; , align=left , Wise , - id="Xinglong" , align=left , Xinglong Station (NAOC) , :Discoveries by the Xinglong Station (NAOC), 5 , IAU code#327, 327 , , align=left , Xinglong Stn.; , align=left , Xinglong; Peking , - id="Yamagata" , align=left , Yamagata Astronomical Observatory , :Discoveries by the Yamagata Astronomical Observatory, 2 , IAU code#D89, D89 , , align=left , Yamagata Obs.; , align=left , Yamagata , - id="Zelenchukskaya Stn" , align=left , Zelenchukskaya Station , :Discoveries by the Zelenchukskaya Station, 8 , IAU code#114, 114 , , align=left , Zelenchukskaya Stn.; , align=left , Zelenchukskaya Stn , - id="Zvezdno Obshtestvo" , align=left , Zvezdno Obshtestvo Observatory , :Discoveries by the Zvezdno Obshtestvo Observatory, 2 , IAU code#A79, A79 , , align=left , Zvezdno Obshtestvo Obs.; , align=left , Zvezdno Obshtestvo , - id="Zwicky Transient Facility" , align=left , Zwicky Transient Facility , :Discoveries by the Zwicky Transient Facility, 1 , IAU code#I41, I41 , , align=left , ZTF; , align=left , Zwicky Transient Facility , - id="7300" , align=left , 7300 Observatory , :Discoveries by the 7300 Observatory, 4 , IAU code#H07, H07 , , align=left , 7300 Obs.; , align=left , 7300

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Notes

The discovery table consist of the following fields: * Astronomers and Institutions: links to the corresponding article about the discovering astronomer or institution on Wikipedia. If not linked, the displayed name should be a redirect to this list. For example, the page forwards to the anchored table row using the astronomer's MPC-name as ID. * Discoveries: displays the total number of discovered and co-discovered minor planets made by the discoverer (numbered bodies only). It links to the corresponding "Discovery by..." category, which are subcategories of :Discoveries by astronomer and :Astronomical discoveries by institution, respectively. Note that these categories do not contain discoveries for which no page on Wikipedia exists. Astronomers with only a few discoveries often do not have their own discovery-category (redlinks). For those who have discovered only one single minor planet, the link in the discovery column directly points to the corresponding entry in the list of minor planets. There are typically no linked categories for astronomers with an unknown first name. * DOB–DOD and Observatory code: displays the date of birth and death for astronomers, and alphanumeric IAU code(s) for institutions, respectively. * Country: nationality of the astronomer or location of the discovering dedicated institution, respectively. Some discoverers have assigned two flags, with the first being the most appropriate to allow for a sensible sorting by country. * Link-label; info, links and, notes: The ''link-label'' is used for Wikipedia:Piped link, piped discoverer links, intended for a consistent usage in minor-planet object articles and in the List of minor planets ''(see List of minor planets#Index, index)''. After the ''link-label'', additional information is given: this includes links to external sources (Src), links to the MPC database (se
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for objects discovered or co-discovered by the astronomer, and trans-wiki links to existing articles on French, German and Italian Wikipedia. (Note that the ''link-label'' should be separated by a semi-colon from all other information). * Name(s) at MPC: displays the name of the discoverer as used by the MPC (non-Diacritics, diacritical version; where the abbreviated first name is written ''before'' the family name). Some discoverers have multiple names due to inconsistencies and typos. * Cite: minor-planet discoverers are often honored with the naming of (one or several) asteroids by their colleges. The associated citation typically gives the discoverer's full name, his or her date of birth and additional biographical information.

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Data Available from the Minor Planet Center

File: "NumberedMPs.txt", 53 MB

Minor Planet Center {{DEFAULTSORT:Minor planet discoverers Astronomy-related lists Discoverers of minor planets, * Lists of space scientists Minor-planet discovering observatories, *