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1. 614 relations: A. David Andrews, Adam Block (astrophotographer), Adrián Galád, Akimasa Nakamura, Alain Maury, Alan C. Gilmore, Albert George Wilson, Albert Marth, Aldo Di Clemente, Alexander Deutsch, Alexandre Schaumasse, Alexis Brandeker, Alfred Bohrmann, Alfred Schmitt, Allan Sandage, Alphonse Borrelly, Ametlla de Mar Observatory, Amy B. Jordan (astronomer), André Patry, Andrea Boattini, Andrea Di Paola, Andrew Graham (astronomer), Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, Andrzej Udalski, Anlaug Amanda Djupvik, Anna N. Żytkow, Annibale de Gasparis, Anton Staus, Antonín Mrkos, Antonio Vagnozzi, Apache Point Observatory, Arne Henden, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Arthur König, Arto Oksanen, Artyom Novichonok, Asiago Astrophysical Observatory, Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey, Asteroid belt, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, Astronomer, Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca, Astronomical survey, Astrovirtel, Atsuo Asami, Atsushi Sugie, Atsushi Takahashi, Audrey C. Delsanti, August Kopff, Auguste Charlois, ... Expand index (564 more) » « Shrink index

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A. David Andrews

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Adam Block (astrophotographer)

Adam David Block (born 1973) is an American astrophotographer, astronomy researcher, writer and instructor.

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Adrián Galád

Adrián Galád (born 1970) is a Slovak astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Akimasa Nakamura

(born 1961) is a Japanese astronomer.

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Alain Maury

Alain J. Maury (born 1958) is a French astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids.

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Alan C. Gilmore

Alan Charles Gilmore (born 1944 in Greymouth, New Zealand) is a New Zealand astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and other astronomical objects.

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Albert George Wilson

Albert George Wilson (July 28, 1918 – August 27, 2012) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Albert Marth

Albert Marth (5 May 1828 – 6 August 1897) was a German astronomer who worked in Britain and Ireland.

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Aldo Di Clemente

Aldo Di Clemente (born 1948) is an Italian amateur astronomer (active 1996–1997).

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Alexander Deutsch

Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch (Aleksandr Nikolaevič Dejč; Александр Николаевич Дейч; December 31, 1899 – 22 November 1986) was a Soviet astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory. List of minor planet discoverers and Alexander Deutsch are discoverers of minor planets.

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Alexandre Schaumasse

Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958) was a French astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets.

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Alexis Brandeker

Alexis Brandeker (born May 18, 1974) is a Swedish astronomer at the Stockholm Observatory and discoverer of minor planets.

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Alfred Bohrmann

Alfred Bohrmann (February 28, 1904 – January 4, 2000) was a German astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Alfred Schmitt

Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975) was a French astronomer.

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Allan Sandage

Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer.

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Alphonse Borrelly

Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer.

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Ametlla de Mar Observatory

Ametlla de Mar Observatory is an astronomical observatory situated in L'Ametlla de Mar in the autonomous Catalonia region of Spain. List of minor planet discoverers and Ametlla de Mar Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

Amy B. Jordan is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets who works at the University of Colorado. List of minor planet discoverers and Amy B. Jordan (astronomer) are discoverers of minor planets.

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André Patry

André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.

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Andrea Boattini

Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Andrea Di Paola

Andrea Di Paola (born 1970) is an Italian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Andrew Graham (astronomer)

Andrew Graham (8 April 1815 – 5 November 1908) was an Irish astronomer, orbit computer and discoverer of the asteroid 9 Metis.

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Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory

Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory (Андрушівська астрономічна обсерваторія) is a private astronomical observatory in the town suburbs of Andrushivka, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. List of minor planet discoverers and Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Andrzej Udalski

Andrzej Jarosław Udalski (born 22 January 1957 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist, and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw.

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Anlaug Amanda Djupvik

Anlaug Amanda Djupvik (formerly Kaas) is a Norwegian astronomer.

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Anna N. Żytkow

Anna Nikola Żytkow (born 21 February 1947) is a Polish astrophysicist working at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. List of minor planet discoverers and Anna N. Żytkow are discoverers of minor planets.

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Annibale de Gasparis

Annibale de Gasparis (9 November 1819 – 21 March 1892) was an Italian astronomer, known for discovering asteroids and his contributions to theoretical astronomy.

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Anton Staus

Anton Staus (5 September 1872 – 21 July 1955) was a German astronomer.

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Antonín Mrkos

Antonín Mrkos (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer.

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Antonio Vagnozzi

Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950) is an amateur Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids.

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Apache Point Observatory

The Apache Point Observatory (APO; obs. code: 705) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico, United States, approximately south of Cloudcroft. List of minor planet discoverers and Apache Point Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Arne Henden

Arne Henden (born 1950) is a retired American observational astronomer, instrument and software specialist, and co-discoverer of a minor planet. List of minor planet discoverers and Arne Henden are discoverers of minor planets.

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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.

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Arthur König

Arthur Peter König (13 September 1856, Krefeld – 26 October 1901, Berlin) devoted his short life to physiological optics.

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Arto Oksanen

Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer and observer at the Nyrölä Observatory, located about 20 kilometers from the city of Jyväskylä in Finland.

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Artyom Novichonok

Artyom Olegovich Novichonok (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, co-discovered in collaboration with astronomers Dmitry Chestnov, Vladimir Gerke and Leonid Elenin at the American Tzec Maun Observatory in Mayhill, New Mexico, and the Russian Ka-Dar Observatory, TAU Station, in Nizhny Arkhyz, respectively. List of minor planet discoverers and Artyom Novichonok are discoverers of minor planets.

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Asiago Astrophysical Observatory

The Asiago Astrophysical Observatory (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago, or Asiago Observatory for short) is an Italian astronomical observatory (IAU code 043) owned and operated by the University of Padua.

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Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey

The Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey (ADAS; obs. code: 209) was an astronomical survey conducted in the early 2000s to search for comets and asteroids, with special emphasis on near-Earth objects. List of minor planet discoverers and Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

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Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects a few weeks to days before they impact Earth.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca

The Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca (Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca, OAM) is an observatory just south of Costitx, Mallorca, Spain.

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Astronomical survey

An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target.

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Astrovirtel

Astrovirtel (Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes, obs. code: I03) is a data archive used as virtual astronomical observatory.

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Atsuo Asami

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Atsushi Sugie

is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Atsushi Takahashi

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Audrey C. Delsanti

Audrey Delsanti (born 27 August 1976) is a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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August Kopff

August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids.

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Auguste Charlois

Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26, 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France.

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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.

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Álvaro López-García

Álvaro López-García (1941-2019) was a Spanish astronomer, professor of astronomy at University of Valencia and director of the Valencia University Observatory during the years 1968-2000.

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Ángel López Jiménez

Ángel López Jiménez (born 1955) is a Spanish astronomer.

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Åke Wallenquist

Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (January 16, 1904 – April 8, 1994) was a Swedish astronomer.

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Édouard Stephan

Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (31 August 1837 – 31 December 1923) was a French astronomer.

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Østervold Observatory

Østervold Observatory (or Copenhagen University Observatory; Københavns Universitet Astronomisk Observatorium) is a former astronomical observatory (IAU code 035) in Copenhagen, Denmark owned and operated by the University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet). List of minor planet discoverers and Østervold Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Črni Vrh Observatory

The Črni Vrh Observatory (Observatorij Črni Vrh, IAU code: 106) is an astronomical observatory located in western Slovenia, close to the settlement of Črni Vrh, near the town of Idrija. List of minor planet discoverers and Črni Vrh Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Badlands Observatory

The Badlands Observatory (IAU code 918) is an astronomical observatory named after the Badlands National Park, located in Quinn, South Dakota, near the city of Wall, United States. List of minor planet discoverers and Badlands Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Bagnall Beach Observatory

Bagnall Beach Observatory (obs. code: 433) is a privately owned astronomical observatory by Greg Crawford, located in Corlette, New South Wales, on the east coast of Australia.

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Bassano Bresciano

Bassano Bresciano (Brescian: Basà) is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

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Bélesta-en-Lauragais

Bélesta-en-Lauragais (literally Bélesta in Lauragais; Belestar de Lauragués) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Beijing Astronomical Observatory

Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) is an observatory in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.

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Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program

The Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program (SCAP) was an astronomical survey to search for near-Earth objects. List of minor planet discoverers and Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Bella A. Burnasheva

Bella Alekseïevna Bournasheva (Бэлла Алексеевна Бурнашева, born 1944) is a Soviet–Russian astronomer credited with the discovery of several asteroids.

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Benjamin Jekhowsky

Benjamin Jekhowsky (Вениамин Павлович Жеховский, born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes (France)) was a Russian–French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official.

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Bergisch Gladbach Observatory

The Bergisch Gladbach Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, at.

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Bisei Spaceguard Center

The is a spaceguard facility adjacent to the (BAO), an astronomical observatory located at Bisei-chō, Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. List of minor planet discoverers and Bisei Spaceguard Center are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Boyden Observatory

Boyden Observatory is an astronomical research observatory and science education centre located in Maselspoort, north-east of the city of Bloemfontein in Free State, South Africa. List of minor planet discoverers and Boyden Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Brazos Bend State Park

Brazos Bend State Park is a state park along the Brazos River in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas (with a Needville postal address), run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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Brett J. Gladman

Brett James Gladman (born April 19, 1966) is a Canadian astronomer and a full professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy in Vancouver, British Columbia. List of minor planet discoverers and Brett J. Gladman are discoverers of minor planets.

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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).

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Brian G. Marsden

Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics ! Harvard & Smithsonian (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).

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Brian G. W. Manning

Brian George William Manning (14 May 1926 – 10 November 2011) was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Brian G. W. Manning are discoverers of minor planets.

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Brian P. Roman

Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.

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Brian Schmidt

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is a Distinguished Professor and astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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Brigitta Sipőcz

Brigitta Sipőcz is a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Brigitta Sipőcz are discoverers of minor planets.

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Brorfelde Observatory

Brorfelde Observatory (Brorfelde Observatoriet; obs. code: 054) is an astronomical observatory located in Brorfelde near Holbæk, Denmark.

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C. Michelle Olmstead

C. List of minor planet discoverers and C. Michelle Olmstead are discoverers of minor planets.

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C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein)

(Bernardinelli–Bernstein), simply known as or Comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein (nicknamed BB), is a large Oort cloud comet discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Dark Energy Survey.

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Calar Alto Observatory

The Calar Alto Observatory (Centro Astronómico Hispano en Andalucía or "Spanish Astronomical Centre in Andalusia") is an astronomical observatory located in Almería province in Spain on Calar Alto, a mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres subrange of the Sierra Nevada. List of minor planet discoverers and Calar Alto Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Calvin–Rehoboth Observatory

The Calvin–Rehoboth Robotic Observatory (obs. code: G98) is an astronomical observatory developed jointly between Calvin University (formerly Calvin College) in Michigan and Rehoboth Christian School in New Mexico, United States. List of minor planet discoverers and Calvin–Rehoboth Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey

The CINEOS program (Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey), started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of near-Earth objects (NEOs), namely asteroids and comets which periodically approach or intersect the Earth's orbit.

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Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

The Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is located near the summit of Mauna Kea mountain on Hawaii's Big Island at an altitude of 4,204 meters (13,793 feet), part of the Mauna Kea Observatory.

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Carl A. Wirtanen

Carl Alvar Wirtanen (November 11, 1910 – March 7, 1990) was an American astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets who worked at Lick Observatory.

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Carl Gustav Witt

Carl Gustav Witt (29 October 1866 – 3 January 1946) was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.

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Carl Otto Lampland

Carl Otto Lampland (December 29, 1873 – December 14, 1951) was an American astronomer.

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Carl W. Hergenrother

Carl William Hergenrother (born 1973) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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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.

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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco

Carlos Ulrrico Cesco (died 1987) was an Argentine astronomer.

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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.

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Catalina Sky Survey

Catalina Sky Survey (CSS; obs. code: 703) is an astronomical survey to discover comets and asteroids.

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Catalina Station

Catalina Station (CS), also known as Steward Observatory Catalina Station, is an astronomical observing facility located on Mount Bigelow in the Santa Catalina Mountains approximately northeast of Tucson, Arizona.

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Catherine E. Delahodde

Catherine E. Delahodde (born 1974) is a French astronomer and co-discoverer of a double trans-Neptunian object.

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Côte d'Azur Observatory

The Côte d'Azur Observatory (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, OCA) is a network of astronomical observatories throughout southern France.

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Celina Mikolajczak

Celina J. Mikolajczak is an American mechanical engineer known for her work in industry on the development of improved electric batteries, especially for electric vehicles. List of minor planet discoverers and Celina Mikolajczak are discoverers of minor planets.

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CERGA Observatory

The CERGA Observatory (Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie; obs. code: 010) was a scientific department and astronomical station of the Côte d'Azur Observatory in southern France, where several asteroids were discovered during 1984–1993. List of minor planet discoverers and CERGA Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is an astronomical observatory located on the summit of Mt. List of minor planet discoverers and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Chad Trujillo

Chadwick A. Trujillo (born November 22, 1973) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and the co-discoverer of Eris, the most massive dwarf planet known in the Solar System.

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Charles P. de Saint-Aignan

Charles P. de Saint-Aignan (born 16 February 1977, Paris) is an American software engineer who works for IBM on the IBM Watson project.

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Charles T. Kowal

Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System.

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Charles W. Juels

Charles W. Juels (1944 – January 21, 2009) was an American amateur astronomer and psychiatrist by profession, who became a prolific discoverer of minor planets after his retirement.

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Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters

Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (September 19, 1813 – July 18, 1890) was a German–American astronomer and professor at Hamilton College, New York, and a pioneer in the study and visual discovery of asteroids.

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Christian Pollas

Christian Pollas (b. 1947) is a French astronomer, known for the discovery and observation of minor planets and supernovae.

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Christopher Aikman

Christopher Aikman is a Canadian astrophysicist who spent most of his career (from 1968 to 2000) at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National Research Council Canada in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.

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Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist

Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (born 1944) is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory.

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Claire Armstrong

Claire Armstrong is a British amateur astronomer.

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Claudine Rinner

Claudine Rinner (born 1965) is a French amateur astronomer from Ottmarsheim in Alsace, France.

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Claudio Casacci

Claudio Casacci (born 1958) is an Italian space scientist and amateur astronomer, who is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of several main-belt asteroids between 1995 and 1998.

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Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.

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Comet ISON

Comet ISON, formally known as C/2012 S1, was a sungrazing comet from the Oort cloud which was discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky (Віталь Неўскі, Vitebsk, Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Артём Новичонок, Kondopoga, Russia).

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Consell Observatory

Consell Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de Consell and Observatori Astronòmic de Consell; observatory code: 176) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Latin American League of Astronomy. List of minor planet discoverers and Consell Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Cordell–Lorenz Observatory

Cordell–Lorenz Observatory (850) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Sewanee:The University of the South. List of minor planet discoverers and Cordell–Lorenz Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Cornelis Johannes van Houten

Cornelis Johannes van Houten (18 February 1920 – 24 August 2002) was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten.

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Crimean Astrophysical Observatory

The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO, obs. code: 095) is located at Nauchnij research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on the Crimean peninsula. List of minor planet discoverers and Crimean Astrophysical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Cuno Hoffmeister

Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory.

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Cyril Jackson (astronomer)

Cyril V. Jackson (5 December 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer, known for discovering 72 asteroids and a number of comets.

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Daria Guidetti

Daria Guidetti (born 1978) is an Italian astrophysicist linked to the INAF.

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Dark Energy Survey

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an astronomical survey designed to constrain the properties of dark energy. List of minor planet discoverers and dark Energy Survey are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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David C. Jewitt

David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. List of minor planet discoverers and David C. Jewitt are discoverers of minor planets.

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David D. Balam

David D. Balam is a Canadian astronomer and a research associate with University of Victoria's Department of Physics and Astronomy, in Victoria, British Columbia.

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David H. Levy

David Howard Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.

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David Healy (astronomer)

David B. Healy (22 December 1936 – 6 June 2011) was an American astrophotographer and asteroid discoverer who is known for his contributions to Burnham's Celestial Handbook. List of minor planet discoverers and David Healy (astronomer) are discoverers of minor planets.

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David J. Asher

David J. Asher (born 1966 in Edinburgh) is a British astronomer, who works at the Armagh Observatory (IAU code 981) in Northern Ireland.

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David J. Tholen

David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi.

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David L. Rabinowitz

David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and researcher at Yale University.

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Deep Ecliptic Survey

The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) is a project to find Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), using the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).

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Deep Lens Survey

The Deep Lens Survey (DLS, short for "Deep Gravitational Lensing Survey") is an ultra-deep multi-band optical survey of seven 4 square degree fields. List of minor planet discoverers and Deep Lens Survey are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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DeLisle Stewart

DeLisle Stewart (March 16, 1870 – February 2, 1941) was an American astronomer.

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Denis Denisenko

Denis Denisenko (born January 16, 1971) is a Russian astronomer of the late 20th – early 21st century, discoverer of 10 supernovae, more than 150 variable stars, an asteroid, and a comet.

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Dennis di Cicco

Dennis di Cicco (born 1950) is an American amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, who lives in New England.

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Dennis K. Chesney

Dennis K. Chesney is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets born in Clovis, New Mexico, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 38 numbered minor planets during 1998–2000.

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Diacritic

A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.

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Distant minor planet

A distant minor planet, or distant object, is any minor planet found beyond Jupiter in the outer Solar System that is not commonly thought of as an "asteroid".

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Dmitry Chestnov

Dmitry Nikolayevich Chestnov (also known as Dmitrij Nikolaevič Čestnov; Дмитрий Николаевич Честнов) is a Russian astronomer, observer and photometrist of comets and discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Dmitry Chestnov are discoverers of minor planets.

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Donald R. Davis (astronomer)

Donald R. Davis is an American astronomer specializing in the evolution of the Solar System. List of minor planet discoverers and Donald R. Davis (astronomer) are discoverers of minor planets.

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Drebach Observatory

The Drebach Observatory (Volkssternwarte Drebach, lit. "Drehbach Popular Observatory") is a planetarium and astronomical observatory (obs. code: 113) located in the municipality of Drebach, in Saxony, Germany. List of minor planet discoverers and Drebach Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Dušan Kalmančok

Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945) is a Slovak astronomer and co-discoverer of minor planets.

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Duncan Steel

Duncan I. Steel (born 1955) is a British space scientist.

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Duncan Waldron

J. List of minor planet discoverers and Duncan Waldron are discoverers of minor planets.

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Edwin Foster Coddington

Edwin Foster Coddington (June 24, 1870 – December 21, 1950) was an American astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.

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Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer.

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Ejnar Hertzsprung

Ejnar Hertzsprung (8 October 1873 – 21 October 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer.

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Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin (née Francis, 19 November 1932 – 25 January 2009) was an American astronomer.

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Elia Millosevich

Elia Filippo Francesco Giuseppe Maria Millosevich (5 September 1848 in Venice, Austrian Empire – 5 December 1919 in Rome) was an Italian astronomer.

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Elizabeth Roemer

Elizabeth "Pat" Roemer (September 4, 1929April 8, 2016) was an American astronomer and educator who specialized in astronomy with a particular focus on comets and minor planets.

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Ellen Howell

Ellen Susanna Howell (born 1961; also published as Ellen S. Bus) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist who studies the composition and structure of asteroids and comets within the Solar System.

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Emil Ernst

Emil Ernst (6 June 1889– 26 June 1942) was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.

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Eric Walter Elst

Eric Walter Elst (30 November 1936 – 2 January 2022) was a Belgian astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle and a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

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Erich Meyer

Erich Meyer (born 6 August 1951) is an Austrian engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids.

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Ernest Leonard Johnson

Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891–1977) was a South African astronomer and a former staff member of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Erwin Obermair

Erwin Obermair (29 August 1946 in Hargelsberg – 15 January 2017 in Linz) was an Electrician, Austrian amateur astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids.

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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.

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ESA Optical Ground Station

The ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS Telescope or ESA Space Debris Telescope) is the European Space Agency's ground based observatory at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, Spain, built for the observation of space debris.

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Eschenberg Observatory

Eschenberg Observatory (Sternwarte Eschenberg) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Astronomical Society of Winterthur.

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Eugène Joseph Delporte

Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.

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Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist.

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EURONEAR

EURONEAR, the European Near Earth Asteroids Research, is a research project and network for the research and discovery of near-Earth objects and potentially hazardous asteroids using existing telescopes located in both hemispheres available to the members of the network.

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European Southern Observatory

The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, commonly referred to as the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is an intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 member states for ground-based astronomy.

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Fabrizio Bernardi

Fabrizio Bernardi (born 1972) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, best known for the co-discovery of the near-Earth and potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis. List of minor planet discoverers and Fabrizio Bernardi are discoverers of minor planets.

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Farpoint Observatory

Farpoint Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League, or NEKAAL. List of minor planet discoverers and Farpoint Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Farra d'Isonzo

Farra d'Isonzo (Fara ob Soči; Fare; Southeastern Friulian: Fara) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

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Faulkes Telescope North

The Faulkes Telescope North is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope, and is located at Haleakala Observatory in the U.S. state of Hawaii. List of minor planet discoverers and Faulkes Telescope North are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Faulkes Telescope Project

The Faulkes Telescope Project (FTP) is supported by the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust.

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Félix Aguilar Observatory

Félix Aguilar Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar; OAFA) is an astronomical observatory. List of minor planet discoverers and Félix Aguilar Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Felix Hormuth

Felix Hormuth (born 1975) is a German astronomer, working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) until 2016, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Fernand Courty

Fernand Courty (11 June 1862 – 12 October 1921) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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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.

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Fernando Pedichini

Fernando Pedichini is an Italian astronomer at the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and discoverer of an asteroid. List of minor planet discoverers and Fernando Pedichini are discoverers of minor planets.

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François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat (May 22, 1856 (Nurieux-Volognat)–October 18, 1934) was a French astronomer, observer of comets and discoverer of two minor planets.

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Francesco Manca

Francesco Manca (born November 1966, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy.

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Frank B. Zoltowski

Frank B. Zoltowski (born 1957) is an Australian amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets who lives in Woomera, South Australia.

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Franz Kaiser

Franz Heinrich Kaiser (25 April 1891 – 13 March 1962) was a German astronomer.

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Frédéric Sy

Frédéric Sy (1861-1917) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years.

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Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory

The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Freimut Börngen

Freimut Börngen (17 October 1930 – 19 June 2021) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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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.

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Friedrich Tietjen

Friedrich Tietjen (1832 in Westerstede, Oldenburg – 1895 in Berlin) was a German astronomer.

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Fumiaki Uto

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Fumiaki Uto are discoverers of minor planets.

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Gabriele Cattani

Gabriele Cattani is an Italian astronomer.

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Gao Xing

Gao Xing (born 1974) is a Chinese amateur astronomer from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. List of minor planet discoverers and Gao Xing are discoverers of minor planets.

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Gary Hug

Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the Farpoint Observatory and Sandlot Observatory in Kansas, United States.

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Gekko Observatory

Gekko Tenmondai (月光天文台 "Moonlight Observatory") is an astronomical observatory located in the Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Gennadiy Borisov

Gennadiy Vladimirovich Borisov (Генна́дий Влади́мирович Бори́сов; born in 1962 in Kramatorsk) is a Russian telescope maker and amateur astronomer who discovered the first-known interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov, in 2019.

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George Henry Peters

George Henry Peters (1863–October 18, 1947) was a US astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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George Mary Searle

George Mary Searle (June 27, 1839 – July 7, 1918) was an American astronomer and Catholic priest.

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George R. Viscome

George R. Viscome (born 1956) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and George R. Viscome are discoverers of minor planets.

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George Van Biesbroeck

George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck,, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer.

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Germano D'Abramo

Germano D'Abramo (born 25 May 1973) is an Italian mathematician, physicist and discoverer of minor planets.

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Gianluca Masi

Gianluca Masi (born 22 January 1972) is an Italian astrophysicist and astronomer, as well as a discoverer of minor planets and variable stars.

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Giovanni de Sanctis

Giovanni de Sanctis (born 1949) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Astronomical Observatory of Turin) in Turin, Italy.

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

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Giovanni Sostero

Giovanni Sostero (18 March 1964 – 6 December 2012) was an Italian amateur astronomer.

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Giuseppe Forti

Giuseppe Forti (December 21, 1939 – July 2, 2007) was an Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids. List of minor planet discoverers and Giuseppe Forti are discoverers of minor planets.

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Giuseppe Piazzi

Giuseppe Piazzi (16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer.

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Goodricke-Pigott Observatory

The Goodricke-Pigott Observatory is a private astronomical observatory in Tucson, Arizona. List of minor planet discoverers and Goodricke-Pigott Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Gordon J. Garradd

Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian amateur astronomer and photographer from Loomberah, New South Wales.

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Graham E. Bell

Graham E. Bell is an American amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Gregory Scott Aldering

Gregory Scott Aldering (born 1960), also known simply as Greg Aldering is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and supernovae, currently with the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

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Grigory Neujmin

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin (Григорий Николаевич Неуймин; – 17 December 1946) was a Georgian–Russian astronomer, native of Tbilisi in Georgia, and a discoverer of numerous minor planets as well as 6 periodic and a hyperbolic comet at the Pulkovo and Simeiz Observatories during the first half of the 20th century.

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Grigory Shajn

Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.

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Guillaume Bigourdan

Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (6 April 1851 – 28 February 1932) was a French astronomer.

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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.

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György Kulin

György Kulin (28 January 1905 – 22 April 1989) was a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Hamilton Jeffers

Hamilton Moore Jeffers (13 October 1893 – 28 May 1976) was a noted American astronomer and discoverer of, an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt.

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Hans Scholl (astronomer)

Hans Scholl (born 1942) is a German astronomer, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany, and at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice, France.

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Hans-Emil Schuster

Hans-Emil Schuster (born 19 September 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991.

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Harry Edwin Wood

Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.

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Harvard College Observatory

The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. List of minor planet discoverers and Harvard College Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Haute-Provence Observatory

The Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP, Observatoire de Haute-Provence) is an astronomical observatory in the southeast of France, about 90 km east of Avignon and 100 km north of Marseille. List of minor planet discoverers and Haute-Provence Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Heber Doust Curtis

Heber Doust Curtis (June 27, 1872 – January 9, 1942) was an American astronomer.

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Heikki A. Alikoski

Heikki A. Alikoski (1912, in Oulu – 28 December 1997, in Turku) was a Finnish astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Heinrich Louis d'Arrest

Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (13 August 1822 – 14 June 1875) was a German astronomer, born in Berlin.

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Heinrich Vogt (astronomer)

Heinrich Vogt (October 5, 1890 – January 23, 1968) was a German astronomer.

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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer.

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Hendrik van Gent

Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam) was a Dutch astronomer.

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Henri Debehogne

Henri Debehogne (30 December 1928 – 9 December 2007) was a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin

Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (December 19, 1845 – February 29, 1904) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Henri M.J. Boffin

Henri M. J. Boffin is a Belgian astronomer from the European Southern Observatory, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 11 numbered minor planets between 1999 and 2001, some in collaboration with Thierry Pauwels.

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Henry E. Holt

Henry E. Holt (27 September 1929 - 5 May 2019) was an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets, who has worked as a planetary geologist at the United States Geological Survey and Northern Arizona University.

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Henry L. Giclas

Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Herbert Raab

Herbert Raab (born 24 January 1969 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian software engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.

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Hermann Goldschmidt

Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – August 30 or September 10 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France.

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High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher

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.

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High-Z Supernova Search Team

The High-Z Supernova Search Team was an international cosmology collaboration which used Type Ia supernovae to chart the expansion of the universe.

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Highland Road Park Observatory

Highland Road Park Observatory or Baton Rouge Observatory is an astronomical observatory jointly operated by Louisiana State University's astronomy department, Baton Rouge Astronomical Society, and The Recreation & Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge. List of minor planet discoverers and Highland Road Park Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Hiroki Kosai

is a Japanese astronomer with the Kiso Observatory.

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Hiroshi Abe (astronomer)

is a Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory.

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Hiroshi Araki

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Hiroshi Fujii

is the chief engineer and platform manager for the research and development department of manufacturing company Mitsubishi Motors.

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Hiroshi Kaneda

is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Sapporo, in the northernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Hiroshi Mori (astronomer)

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Holger Thiele

Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Horace Parnell Tuttle

Horace Parnell Tuttle (March 17, 1837 – August 16, 1923) was an American astronomer, an American Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle (November 1, 1829 – July 17, 1881).

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Ian P. Griffin

Ian Paul Griffin (born 1966) is a New Zealand astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and a public spokesman upon scientific matters. List of minor planet discoverers and Ian P. Griffin are discoverers of minor planets.

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Indiana Asteroid Program

The Indiana Asteroid Program was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949–1967, at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana.

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer.

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International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey

The International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey (INAS) was an astronomical survey, organized and co-ordinated by prolific American astronomer Eleanor Helin during the 1980s.

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International Scientific Optical Network

The International Scientific Optical Network or ISON (Международная научная оптическая сеть, Пулковская кооперация оптическихнаблюдателей) is an international project, currently consisting of about 30 telescopes at about 20 observatories in about ten countries (Russia, Ukraine (Andrushivka), Georgia (Abastumani), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Spain (Teide), Switzerland (Zimmerwald), Bolivia (Tarija), USA (Mayhill), Italy (Collepardo)) which have organized to detect, monitor and track objects in space. List of minor planet discoverers and international Scientific Optical Network are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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IRAS

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Dutch: Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet) (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. List of minor planet discoverers and IRAS are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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James Bauer (astronomer)

James "Gerbs" Bauer (born 1968, Michigan, USA) is an American astronomer who studies comets and related bodies. List of minor planet discoverers and James Bauer (astronomer) are discoverers of minor planets.

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James Craig Watson

James Craig Watson (January 28, 1838 – November 23, 1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, director of the University of Michigan's Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor, and awarded with the Lalande Prize in 1869.

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James Edward Keeler

James Edward Keeler (September 10, 1857 – August 12, 1900) was an American astronomer.

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James Ferguson (American astronomer)

James Ferguson (August 31, 1797 – September 26, 1867) was a Scottish-born American astronomer and engineer, who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America (31 Euphrosyne).

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James L. Elliot

James Ludlow Elliot (June 17, 1943 – March 3, 2011) was an American astronomer and scientist who, as part of a team, discovered the rings around the planet Uranus. List of minor planet discoverers and James L. Elliot are discoverers of minor planets.

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James V. Scotti

James Vernon Scotti (born 1960) is an American astronomer.

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James Whitney Young

James Whitney Young (born January 24, 1941) is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research.

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Jana Tichá

Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Jane Luu

Jane X. Luu (Lưu Lệ Hằng; born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer.

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Japan Spaceguard Association

The is a not-for-profit organization based in Tokyo, Japan.

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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.

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Jérôme Eugène Coggia

Jérôme Eugène Coggia (18 February 1849 – 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets, who was born in the Corsican town of Ajaccio.

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Jean Chacornac

Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.

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Jean Mueller

Jean Mueller (born 1950) is an American astronomer and discoverer of comets, minor planets, and a large number of supernovas at the U.S. Palomar Observatory in California.

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Jean-Claude Merlin

Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954) is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society (Société Astronomique de Bourgogne) and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Jeff T. Alu

Jeffrey (Jeff) Thomas Alu (born January 1, 1966) is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer who has participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey.

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Jeffrey S. Medkeff

Jeffrey S. Medkeff (1968 – 3 August 2008), usually known as Jeff Medkeff, was a prominent science writer and educator.

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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.

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Jessica Lovering

Jessica Lovering is an American astrophysicist, researcher and Director of Energy at the Breakthrough Institute.

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Joanny-Philippe Lagrula

Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870–1941) was a French astronomer.

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Joel Hastings Metcalf

Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer, humanitarian and minister.

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Johann Palisa

Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic.

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Johannes Franz Hartmann

Johannes Franz Hartmann (11 January 1865 – 13 September 1936) was a German physicist and astronomer.

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John Broughton

John Broughton (born 1952) is an Australian amateur astronomer and artist.

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John Huchra

John Peter Huchra (December 23, 1948 – October 8, 2010) was an American astronomer and professor.

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John J. Kavelaars

J-John Kavelaars, better known as JJ Kavelaars (born 1966), is a Canadian astronomer who was part of a team that discovered several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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John Platt (computer scientist)

John Carlton Platt (born 1963) is an American computer scientist. List of minor planet discoverers and John Platt (computer scientist) are discoverers of minor planets.

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John Russell Hind

John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD (12 May 1823 – 23 December 1895) was an English astronomer.

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John V. McClusky

John V. McClusky is an American astronomer.

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José De Queiroz

José De Queiroz (born 9 August 1954) is a Portuguese-born, Swiss amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, as well as a restaurant manager in Falera in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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José Luis Ortiz Moreno

José Luis Ortiz Moreno (born 1967) is a Spanish astronomer, and former vice director of Technology at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Spain.

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Josep Comas i Solà

Josep Comas i Solà (Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.

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Joseph A. Burns

Joseph Burns is a professor at Cornell University with a dual appointment in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the Astronomy department. List of minor planet discoverers and Joseph A. Burns are discoverers of minor planets.

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Joseph Helffrich

Joseph Helffrich (12 January 1890 in Mannheim, Baden – 1971) was a German astronomer.

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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent

Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences.

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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 Leontina, which he discovered in 1913 and 1916, respectively.

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Jun Chen (astronomer)

Jun Chen is a Chinese American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Junk Bond Observatory

The Junk Bond Observatory (JBO; code: 701) is located in the Sonoran Desert at Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States. List of minor planet discoverers and Junk Bond Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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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.

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Jura Observatory

The Jura Observatory (Observatoire astronomique jurassien) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Jura Astronomy Society (Société Jurassienne d'Astronomie; SJA). List of minor planet discoverers and jura Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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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. List of minor planet discoverers and Juraj Tóth are discoverers of minor planets.

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Kamil Hornoch

Kamil Hornoch (born 5 December 1972) is a Czech astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. List of minor planet discoverers and Kamil Hornoch are discoverers of minor planets.

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Karen Jean Meech

Karen J. Meech (born 1959) is an American planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaiʻi. List of minor planet discoverers and Karen Jean Meech are discoverers of minor planets.

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Karl Augustesen

Karl A. Augustesen (born 1945) is a Danish astronomer and co-discoverer of minor planets.

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Karl Ludwig Harding

Karl Ludwig Harding (29 September 1765 – 31 August 1834) was a German astronomer, who discovered Juno, the third asteroid of the main-belt in 1804.

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Karl Ludwig Hencke

Karl Ludwig Hencke (8 April 1793 – 21 September 1866) was a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth

Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (4 April 1892 in Heidelberg – 6 May 1979 in Heidelberg) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of 395 minor planets.

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Kazimieras Černis

Kazimieras Černis (born November 11, 1958, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist, active member of the IAU, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. List of minor planet discoverers and Kazimieras Černis are discoverers of minor planets.

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Kazuo Kubokawa

was a Japanese astronomer, who, together with astronomer Okuro Oikawa, co-discovered the Mars-crosser asteroid 1139 Atami in 1929.

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Kazuro Watanabe

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Kazuyoshi Itō

Kazuyoshi Itō (伊藤和幸 Itō Kazuyoshi) is a Japanese astronomer.

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Kōichirō Tomita

was a Japanese astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Kōyō Kawanishi

is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and discoverer of 13 minor planets.

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Kenneth J. Lawrence

Kenneth J. Lawrence (born 1964) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Kenzo Suzuki (astronomer)

is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Kepler space telescope

The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.

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Kiichirō Furukawa

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Kin Endate

is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered hundreds of asteroids, most of them in collaboration with Kazuro Watanabe, placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets.

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Kiso Observatory

Kiso Observatory (木曽観測所: Kiso Kansokujo) is an astronomical observatory located at Mt. Ontake in Japan. List of minor planet discoverers and Kiso Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Kitt Peak National Observatory

The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. List of minor planet discoverers and Kitt Peak National Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Kiyotaka Kanai

is a Japanese amateur astronomer, observer of variable stars, discoverer of comet C/1970 B1, and co-discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 7752 Otauchunokai, named after the Ota Uchuno Kai group, an amateur astronomers' club at Ōta city, of which he is a member of.

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Kleť Observatory

Kleť Observatory (Hvězdárna Kleť; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. List of minor planet discoverers and Kleť Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Konkoly Observatory

Konkoly Observatory (HUN-REN Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Intézet; obs. code: 053) is an astronomical observatory located in Budapest, Hungary is part of the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont) and belongs to the.

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Korado Korlević

Korado Korlević (born 19 September 1958 in Poreč) is a Croatian teacher and prolific amateur astronomer, who ranks among the world's top 20 discoverers of minor planets.

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Krisztián Sárneczky

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

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Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory

The Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory (Obs. code: 360) is located at Kumakōgen in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

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Kvistaberg Observatory

The Kvistaberg Station or Kvistaberg Observatory (Kvistabergs observatorium; obs. code: 049) was a Swedish astronomical observatory and a station of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, which both belong to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University. List of minor planet discoverers and Kvistaberg Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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La Plata Astronomical Observatory

The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. List of minor planet discoverers and la Plata Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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La Sagra Observatory

La Sagra Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra; OLS; observatory code: L98) is an astronomical observatory located in the province of Granada, Spain.

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La Silla Observatory

La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). List of minor planet discoverers and La Silla Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Ladislav Brožek

Ladislav Brožek (born 1952) is a Slovak astronomer.

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Las Campanas Observatory

Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS).

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Las Cumbres Observatory

Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) is a network of astronomical observatories run by a non-profit private operating foundation directed by the technologist Wayne Rosing.

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Leland Cunningham

Leland Erskin Cunningham (February 10, 1904, in Wiscasset, Maine – May 31, 1989, in Richmond, California) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Leland Cunningham are discoverers of minor planets.

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Lenka Kotková

Lenka Kotková (née Šarounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Leo Anton Karl de Ball

Leo Anton Karl de Ball (November 23, 1853 – December 12, 1916) was a German-Austrian astronomer.

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Leonard Kornoš

Leonard Kornoš (born 1956) is a Slovak astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

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Leonard L. Amburgey

Leonard L. Amburgey (born 1945) is an American amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and public-school teacher by profession.

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Leonid Elenin

Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin (Леони́д Влади́мирович Еле́нин; born 10 August 1981) is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory (H15) via the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West. List of minor planet discoverers and Leonid Elenin are discoverers of minor planets.

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Lick Observatory

The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California.

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LightBuckets

LightBuckets is a commercial astronomical observatory formerly located in Rodeo, New Mexico and now located in France, which rents time on its telescopes to customers around the world via a website on the Internet, including amateur and professional astronomers.

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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.

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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects.

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Lipót Schulhof

Lipót Schulhof (12 March 1847 in Baja – October 1921 in Paris; Schulhof Lipót; Leopold Schulhof or Schulhoff; Léopold Schulhof) was a Hungarian-Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids.

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List of asteroid-discovering observatories

The list of asteroid-discovering observatories contains a section for each observatory which has discovered one or more asteroids, along with a list of those asteroids. List of minor planet discoverers and list of asteroid-discovering observatories are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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List of Halley-type comets

The following is a list of Halley-type comets (HTCs), which are periodic comets with an orbital period between 20 and 200 years, often appearing only once or twice within one's lifetime.

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List of hyperbolic comets

This is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System.

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List of minor planet discoverers

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). List of minor planet discoverers and list of minor planet discoverers are astronomy-related lists, discoverers of minor planets, lists of space scientists and minor-planet discovering observatories.

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List of minor planets

The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order.

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List of numbered comets

This is a list of periodic comets that were numbered by the Minor Planet Center after having been observed on at least two occasions.

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List of observatory codes

This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. List of minor planet discoverers and list of observatory codes are astronomy-related lists.

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Liverpool Telescope

The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a two-metre-aperture robotic Ritchey–Chrétien telescope that observes autonomously (without human intervention).

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Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory

The Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory (OAN de Llano del Hato, or Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Llano del Hato, code: 303) is an astronomical observatory in Venezuela. List of minor planet discoverers and Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Loren C. Ball

Loren C. Ball (born 1948) is an American amateur astronomer, who has discovered more than 100 asteroids while working at his Emerald Lane Observatory (843), built on the roof of his house on Emerald Lane, Decatur, Alabama.

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Los Molinos Observatory

Los Molinos Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico Los Molinos, OALM; obs. code: 844) is an astronomical observatory owned by the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay and operated in collaboration with the University of the Republic's Astronomy Department. List of minor planet discoverers and Los Molinos Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Louis Boyer (astronomer)

Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952.

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Lowell Discovery Telescope

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), is a aperture telescope owned and operated by Lowell Observatory.

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Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.

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Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search

Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth.

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Luboš Kohoutek

Luboš Kohoutek (29 January 1935 – 30 December 2023) was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973.

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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.

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Luigi Carnera

Luigi Carnera (born in Trieste April 14, 1875, died in Florence, July 30, 1962) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.

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Luigi Sannino

Luigi Sannino (born 1981) is an Italian amateur astronomer. List of minor planet discoverers and Luigi Sannino are discoverers of minor planets.

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Lulin Observatory

The Lulin Observatory (obs. code: D35) is an astronomical observatory operated by the Institute of Astronomy, National Central University in Taiwan.

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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.

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Lyudmila Chernykh

Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х, June 13, 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Ukrainian-Russian-Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Lyudmila Karachkina

Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Lyudmila Zhuravleva

Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva (Людмила Васильевна Журавлёва, translit; born 22 May 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian astronomer, who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, where she discovered 213 minor planets.

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Magdalena Ridge Observatory

The Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) is an astronomical observatory in Socorro County, New Mexico, about 32 kilometers (20 mi) west of the town of Socorro.

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Makio Akiyama

is a Japanese astronomer affiliated with the Susono Observatory (886).

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Malcolm Hartley

Malcolm Hartley (born 15 February 1947, Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English-born astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who works with the UK Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. List of minor planet discoverers and Malcolm Hartley are discoverers of minor planets.

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Marc Buie

Marc William Buie (born September 17, 1958) is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets who works at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the Space Science Department.

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Marcin Kubiak

Marcin Antoni Kubiak is a Polish astrophysicist, who obtained his professorship title on 25 April 1994.

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Marco Cavagna

Marco Cavagna (1958 – August 9, 2005) was an Italian amateur astronomer.

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Marco Micheli

Marco Micheli (born 1983) is an Italian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Marco Micheli are discoverers of minor planets.

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Marek Wolf

Marek Wolf (born 30 June 1957) is a Czech astronomer, former head the Astronomický ústav, Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Astronomical Institute, Charles University of Prague).

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Marguerite Laugier

Marguerite Laugier (née Lhomme) (12 September 1896 – 10 June 1976) was a French astronomer active at the Nice Observatory from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Maria A. Barucci

Maria Antonella Barucci is an Italian astronomer at the Observatory-Meudon, Paris. List of minor planet discoverers and Maria A. Barucci are discoverers of minor planets.

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Marino Dusić

Marino Dusić is a Croatian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Mario Jurić

Mario Jurić (born 9 February 1979) is a Croatian astronomer.

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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 children of Finnish missionaries. List of minor planet discoverers and Marja Väisälä are discoverers of minor planets.

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Mark Armstrong (astronomer)

Mark Armstrong (born 1958) is a British amateur astronomer, a member of the British Astronomical Association.

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Martin Connors

Martin Gerard Connors (born 1954) is a Canadian astronomer, space physicist, author and professor.

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Martin Geffert

Martin Geffert (1922–2015) was a German amateur astronomer and co-founder of the Starkenburg Observatory in Heppenheim, Germany, where he had been the observatory's treasurer since its beginnings in 1970.

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Masahiro Koishikawa

was a Japanese astronomer.

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Masakatsu Aoki

is a Japanese amateur astronomer who operates from his private Aoki Astronomical Observatory at Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

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Masanori Hirasawa

is a Japanese astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids.

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Masaru Arai

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Masaru Mukai

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Masayuki Iwamoto

is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture.

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Masayuki Yanai

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Matsuo Sugano

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Matthew J. Holman

Matthew J. Holman (born 1967) is a Smithsonian astrophysicist and lecturer at Harvard University. List of minor planet discoverers and Matthew J. Holman are discoverers of minor planets.

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Maui Space Surveillance Complex

The Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC) is a U.S. Space Force operating location for the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, with a twofold mission. List of minor planet discoverers and Maui Space Surveillance Complex are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Mauna Kea Observatories

The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, United States.

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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.

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Max Wolf

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography.

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McDonald Observatory

McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. List of minor planet discoverers and McDonald Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Megan Schwamb

Megan E. Schwamb (born 1984) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. List of minor planet discoverers and Megan Schwamb are discoverers of minor planets.

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Michael E. Brown

Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003.

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Michel Ory

Michel Ory (born 18 April 1966) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. List of minor planet discoverers and Michel Ory are discoverers of minor planets.

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Miguel Itzigsohn

Miguel Itzigsohn (1908–1978) was an Argentine astronomer and observer of comets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 asteroids between 1948 and 1954.

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Mike Irwin

Michael J. Irwin is a British astronomer. List of minor planet discoverers and Mike Irwin are discoverers of minor planets.

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Milan Antal

Milan Antal (1935–1999) was a Slovak astronomer.

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Miloš Tichý

Miloš Tichý (born 1966 in Počátky) is a Czech astronomer.

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Milorad B. Protić

Milorad B. Protić (Милорад Б.; 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 Observatory.

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Minor planet

According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.

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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).

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Minoru Kizawa

is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Mirasteilas Observatory

The Mirasteilas Observatory (Sternwarte Mirasteilas; Romansh for "stargazer") is an astronomical observatory in Falera in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. List of minor planet discoverers and Mirasteilas Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.

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Modra Observatory

The Astronomical Observatory of Modra (Astronomické observatórium Modra), also known as Modra Observatory or the Astronomical and Geophysical observatory in Modra, is an astronomical observatory located in Modra, Slovakia. List of minor planet discoverers and Modra Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Molėtai Astronomical Observatory

The Molėtai Astronomical Observatory (MAO; Molėtų astronomijos observatorija in Lithuanian) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Vilnius University Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy. List of minor planet discoverers and Molėtai Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Mont Ventoux

Mont Ventoux (Provençal) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse.

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Mount John University Observatory

University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory (UCMJO), previously known as Mt John University Observatory (MJUO), is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory.

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Mount Lemmon Survey

Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96.

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N. R. Pogson

Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory.

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Nachi-Katsuura Observatory

Nachi-Katsuura Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan.

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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. List of minor planet discoverers and Nalin Samarasinha are discoverers of minor planets.

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Naoto Satō

is a Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and, by profession, a junior high school science teacher.

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National Astronomical Observatory (Chile)

The National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Chile - OAN) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Department of Astronomy of the University of Chile (UCh). List of minor planet discoverers and National Astronomical Observatory (Chile) are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico)

The National Astronomical Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico Nacional—OAN) is an astronomical observatory in Baja California, Mexico.

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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects.

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Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU).

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NEKAAL

NEKAAL is the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League, a non-profit educational and scientific organization founded 1978 and based in Topeka, Kansas.

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New Horizons

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.

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Nichole M. Danzl

Nichole M. Danzl is an American astronomer and biologist who has discovered several trans-Neptunian objects while working with the Spacewatch survey. List of minor planet discoverers and Nichole M. Danzl are discoverers of minor planets.

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Nihondaira Observatory

Nihondaira Observatory (also known as Oohira Station, Obs. code: 385) is an astronomical observatory that is located on a hill overlooking Shimizu, Japan.

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Nikolai Chernykh

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrˈnɨx; 6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea.

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Nobuhiro Kawasato

is a Japanese astronomer credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 105 asteroids he made partially in collaboration with astronomer Tsutomu Hioki at Okutama Observatory, Japan, between 1988 and 2000.

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Norman G. Thomas

Norman Gene Thomas (May 1, 1930 - May 19, 2020) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Nyrölä Observatory

Nyrölä Observatory (Nyrölän observatorio) is an amateur astronomical observatory in Finland. List of minor planet discoverers and Nyrölä Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Oak Ridge Observatory

The Oak Ridge Observatory (ORO, code: 801), also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. List of minor planet discoverers and Oak Ridge Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Oakley Observatory

Oakley Observatory or Rose–Hulman Observatory (Obs. code: 916) is an astronomical observatory operated by Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. List of minor planet discoverers and Oakley Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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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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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Observatory Naef Épendes

Observatory Robert A. Naef (Observatoire Robert A. Naef) is an astronomical observatory located at Épendes, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland at 7.13938 degrees east of Greenwich and 46.76236 degrees north latitude.

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Observatory of Saint-Veran

The Observatory of Saint-Veran (Observatoire de Saint-Véran) is a French astronomical observatory located on the Pic de Château Renard in the municipality of Saint-Véran in the department of Hautes-Alpes in the French Alpes. List of minor planet discoverers and observatory of Saint-Veran are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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OCA–DLR Asteroid Survey

The OCA–DLR Asteroid Survey (ODAS) was an astronomical survey to search for small Solar System bodies focusing on near-Earth objects in the late 1990s.

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Odette Bancilhon

Odette Bancilhon (22 September 1908 – 1998) was a French astronomer.

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Okuro Oikawa

was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Ondřejov Observatory

The Ondřejov Observatory (Observatoř Ondřejov) is the principal observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. List of minor planet discoverers and Ondřejov Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Osamu Muramatsu

is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets.

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Otto Lesser

Otto Leberecht Lesser (16 October 1830 – 12 August 1887) was a German astronomer who co-discovered asteroid 62 Erato with Wilhelm Julius Foerster on September 14, 1860 at the Berlin Observatory.

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Otto Struve

Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве; 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963) was a Ukrainian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin.

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Oukaïmeden Observatory

Oukaïmeden Observatory (obs. code: J43) is an astronomical observatory located in the commune of Oukaïmden in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey is conducted to observe small Solar System bodies. List of minor planet discoverers and Oukaïmeden Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Outer Solar System Origins Survey

The Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) is an astronomical survey and observing program aimed at discovering and tracking trans-Neptunian objects located in the outermost regions of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Pablo Cottenot

Pablo Cottenot (born 1800) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.

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Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States.

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Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey

The Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973.

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Palomar Transient Factory

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient and variable sources such as variable stars, supernovae, asteroids and comets.

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Pamela M. Kilmartin

Pamela M. Kilmartin is a New Zealand astronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Pan-STARRS

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects.

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Paolo Chiavenna

Paolo Chiavenna is an Italian amateur astronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 minor planets during 1995–2000.

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Paranal Observatory

Paranal Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

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Patrick Wiggins (astronomer)

Patrick Wiggins (born 1949) is an American amateur astronomer, and a discoverer of minor planets as well as supernovae. List of minor planet discoverers and Patrick Wiggins (astronomer) are discoverers of minor planets.

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Paul G. Comba

Paul G. Comba (1926 – April 5, 2017) was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Paul Götz

Paul Götz (1883–1962) was a German astronomer and discoverer of 20 minor planets between 1903 and 1905.

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Paul Henry and Prosper Henry

Paul-Pierre Henry (21 August 1848 – 4 January 1905) and his brother Prosper-Mathieu Henry (10 December 1849 – 25 July 1903) were French opticians and astronomers.

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Paul Wiegert

Paul Arnold Wiegert (born 1967) is a Canadian astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and professor at the University of Western Ontario. List of minor planet discoverers and Paul Wiegert are discoverers of minor planets.

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Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer)

Paul Wild (5 October 1925 – 2 July 2014) was a Swiss astronomer and director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, who discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae.

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Paulo R. Holvorcem

Paulo Renato Centeno Holvorcem (born 10 July 1967) is a Brazilian amateur astronomer and mathematician who lives in Brasilia, Brazil.

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Pelageya Shajn

Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova (Пелагея Фёдоровна Шайн) (22 September 1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928.

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System.

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Perth Observatory

The Perth Observatory is the name of two astronomical observatories located in Western Australia (WA). List of minor planet discoverers and Perth Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Petar Đurković

Petar Đurković (Петар Ђурковић, 1908–1981) was a Serbian astronomer known for discovering two asteroids in 1936 and 1940, respectively.

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Peter Kolény

Peter Kolény is a Slovak astronomer.

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Peter Kušnirák

Peter Kušnirák (born 1974) is a Slovak astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and a prolific photometrist of light-curves at Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.

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Petr Pravec

Petr Pravec (born September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, born in Třinec, Czech Republic.

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Phil Nicholson

Philip D. Nicholson (born 1951) is an Australian-born professor of astronomy at Cornell University in the Astronomy department specialising in Planetary Sciences.

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Philibert Jacques Melotte

Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium.

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Philip Herbert Cowell

Philip Herbert Cowell FRS (1870 – 1949) was a British astronomer.

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Pic du Midi de Bigorre

The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply the Pic du Midi (elevation) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees. List of minor planet discoverers and Pic du Midi de Bigorre are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Piero Sicoli

Piero Sicoli (born 1954) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, observing at the Italian Sormano Astronomical Observatory.

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Pierre Antonini

Pierre Antonini is a retired French mathematics professor and amateur astronomer who has discovered several minor planets and two supernovae at his private Observatoire de Bédoin (Bedoin Observatory; observatory code: 132) located at Bédoin, southeastern France.

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Pises Observatory

Pises Observatory is an astronomical observatory at the Parc National des Cévennes in France. List of minor planet discoverers and Pises Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory

The Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese; obs. code: 104), also known as the San Marcello Observatory and the Pian dei Termini Observatory (Osservatorio di Pian dei Termini), is an astronomical observatory in San Marcello Piteglio, Tuscany, central Italy. List of minor planet discoverers and Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Piszkéstető Station

The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an astronomical observatory in Mátraszentimre in Mátra Mountains, about northeast of Hungary's capital Budapest. List of minor planet discoverers and Piszkéstető Station are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Poul Jensen (astronomer)

Poul B. Jensen is a Danish astronomer and a discoverer of 98 minor planets while working at Brorfelde Observatory.

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Powell Observatory

Powell Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near Louisburg in Miami County, Kansas.

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Puckett Observatory

Puckett Observatory is a private astronomical observatory located in the state of Georgia.

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Punaʻauia

Punaauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeokinaete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

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Purple Mountain Observatory

The Purple Mountain Observatory, also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Purple Mountain in the east of Nanjing. List of minor planet discoverers and Purple Mountain Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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R. Scott Dunbar

Roy Scott Dunbar is an American astronomer, planetologist and discoverer of comets and minor planets.

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Rafael Ferrando

Rafael Ferrando (born 1966) is a Spanish astronomer, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of numerous minor planets between 2001 and 2010. List of minor planet discoverers and Rafael Ferrando are discoverers of minor planets.

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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 astronomer Álvaro López-García.

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Rafael Suvanto

Rafael Suvanto (June 28, 1909 in Turku – March 9, 1940 in Kärstilänjärvi) was a Finnish astronomer. List of minor planet discoverers and Rafael Suvanto are discoverers of minor planets.

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Raymond Smith Dugan

Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Reedy Creek Observatory

Reedy Creek Observatory (obs. code: 428) is an astronomical observatory the location for observations of near-Earth objects by John Broughton, an Australian amateur astronomer.

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Regina Podstanická

Regina Podstanická (née Šáškyová; 25 March 1928 – 20 November 2000) was a Slovak astronomer.

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Reiki Kushida

is a Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of supernovas such as 1991bg (the first visual discovery made by a female astronomer), and co-discoverer of 4875 Ingalls, a Flora asteroid from the main-belt.

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Remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico

The Remote Astronomical Society (RAS) Observatory, Mayhill, also known as the New Mexico Skies Observatory (obs. code H06) is a remotely controlled observatory hosted by the New Mexico Skies astronomy hosting company. List of minor planet discoverers and remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Renu Malhotra

Renu Malhotra (born 1961) is an American planetary scientist from India, known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune. List of minor planet discoverers and Renu Malhotra are discoverers of minor planets.

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Richard Kowalski

Richard A. Kowalski (born 1963) is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, among them, many near-Earth objects.

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Richard Martin West

Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects with a long career at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Richard P. Binzel

Richard "Rick" P. Binzel (born 1958) is an American astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Richard Schorr

Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr (20 August 1867, Kassel – 21 September 1951, Badgastein, Salzburg), was a German astronomer.

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Robert Burnham Jr.

Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.

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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).

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Robert Linderholm

Robert Glen Linderholm (October 19, 1933 – July 6, 2013) was an American amateur astronomer who discovered several asteroids.

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Robert Luther

Karl Theodor Robert Luther (16 April 1822, Świdnica – 15 February 1900 Düsseldorf), normally published as Robert Luther, was a German astronomer.

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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.

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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Roy A. Tucker

Not to be confused with North Carolina Politician Richard Tucker (American politician) Roy A. Tucker (1951 – 2021) was 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.

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Royal Harwood Frost

Royal Harwood Frost (25 February 1879 – 11 May 1950) was an American astronomer, born in Salem, Massachusetts to Albinus Finney Frost and Emma Jane Richardson, the fourth son of a family of ten.

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Royal Observatory of Belgium

The Royal Observatory of Belgium (Observatoire Royal de Belgique; Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België) has been situated in the Uccle municipality of Brussels since 1890. List of minor planet discoverers and Royal Observatory of Belgium are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) is an astronomical institution located on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh. List of minor planet discoverers and Royal Observatory, Edinburgh are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Rozhen Observatory

Rozhen Observatory (Национална астрономическа обсерватория - Рожен, НАО-Рожен; National Astronomical Observatory - Rozhen, NAO-Rozhen), also known as the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory, is an astronomical observatory, located in the Smolyan Province, 90 kilometers south of the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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Rudolph Minkowski

Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski;; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer.

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Sadao Sei

is a Japanese astronomer who discovered an asteroid in 1983.

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Saji Observatory

The Saji Observatory is located in Saji, Tottori, Japan.

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San Vittore Observatory

The San Vittore Observatory (Osservatorio San Vittore, obs. code: 552) is an astronomical observatory in Bologna, Italy. List of minor planet discoverers and San Vittore Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory

The Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astrometrico Santa Lucia Stroncone) is an astronomical observatory located at altitude in Stroncone, near the city of Terni, in Umbria, north central Italy. List of minor planet discoverers and Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Satoru Otomo

is a Japanese dentist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Schelte J. Bus

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born 1956) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi and deputy director of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, United States.

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Scott S. Sheppard

Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System.

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Sebastian F. Hönig

Sebastian Florian Hönig (born 1978) is a German astronomer, Professor of Observational & Computational Astrophysics (and Head of School elect) in the astronomy group of the University of Southampton School of Physics & Astronomy, and discoverer of minor planets and comets. List of minor planet discoverers and Sebastian F. Hönig are discoverers of minor planets.

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Seidai Miyasaka

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Seiji Ueda

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Sergei Ipatov

Sergei Ivanovich Ipatov (Сергей Иванович Ипатов, born November 10, 1952, Moscow) is a Soviet, Russian, and American scientist, laureate of the F. A. Bredikhin Prize in astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. List of minor planet discoverers and Sergei Ipatov are discoverers of minor planets.

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Sergey Belyavsky

Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Серге́й Ива́нович Беля́вский; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of 36 numbered minor planets.

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Seth Barnes Nicholson

Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 – July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer.

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SFA Observatory

The SFA Observatory (SFA) is an astronomical observatory located north of Nacogdoches, Texas (USA).

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Shōhei Suzuki

is a Japanese astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Shigeru Inoda

was a Japanese ophthalmologist, surgeon and amateur astronomer.

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Shun-ei Izumikawa

is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 5239 Reiki and 27748 Vivianhoette, two main-belt asteroids he first observed together with astronomer Osamu Muramatsu at the Yatsugatake South Base Observatory near Hokuto, Yamanashi, in 1990 and 1991.

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Siding Spring Observatory

Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, and other institutions.

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Siding Spring Survey

The Siding Spring Survey (SSS) was a near-Earth object search program that used the 0.5-metre Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sierra Nevada Observatory

The Sierra Nevada Observatory (Observatorio de Sierra Nevada; OSN; code: J86) is located at Loma de Dilar (2896 m altitude) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the province of Granada, Spain; established in 1981.

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Simeiz Observatory

Simeiz Observatory (also spelled Simeis or Simeïs) was an astronomy research observatory until the mid-1950s. List of minor planet discoverers and Simeiz Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States.

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Solon Irving Bailey

Solon Irving Bailey (December 29, 1854 – June 5, 1931) was an American astronomer and discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 504 Cora, on June 30, 1902.

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Sonia Keys

Sonia Keys (1961 – August 13, 2018), formerly known as Kyle Smalley, was an American amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Sonia Keys are discoverers of minor planets.

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Sormano Astronomical Observatory

The Sormano Astronomical Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano, obs. code: 587) is an astronomical observatory north of Milan, Italy. List of minor planet discoverers and Sormano Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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South African Astronomical Observatory

South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa.

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Space Surveillance Telescope

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Southern Hemisphere-based U.S. Space Force telescope used for detecting, tracking, and cataloguing satellites, near-Earth objects, and space debris.

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Space Telescope Science Institute

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and science operations center for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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Spacewatch

The Spacewatch Project is an astronomical survey that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets at University of Arizona telescopes on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.

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Stardome Observatory

Stardome Observatory (IAU observatory code 467, previously known as Auckland Observatory) is a public astronomical observatory situated in Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill Domain in Auckland, New Zealand. List of minor planet discoverers and Stardome Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Starkenburg Observatory

The Starkenburg Observatory (Starkenburg-Sternwarte) is an astronomical observatory in Heppenheim, Germany. List of minor planet discoverers and Starkenburg Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Stefano Sposetti

Stefano Sposetti (born 22 December 1958) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Stephen P. Laurie

Stephen P. Laurie is a British amateur astronomer.

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Stephen Singer-Brewster

Stephen C. Singer-Brewster (b. 1945) also known as Stephen C. Brewster is an American astronomer.

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Steward Observatory

Steward Observatory is the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona (UArizona).

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Stony Ridge Observatory

Stony Ridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory built by and for amateur astronomers in the mountains of Los Angeles County, California, in 1957.

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Susannah Lazar

Susannah Lazar is an American medical physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Susannah Lazar are discoverers of minor planets.

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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 space probe to Venus. List of minor planet discoverers and Suzanne Smrekar are discoverers of minor planets.

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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. List of minor planet discoverers and Suzanne W. Tourtellotte are discoverers of minor planets.

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Sycorax (moon)

Sycorax is the largest irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Sylvain Arend

Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium.

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Table Mountain Observatory

Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) is an astronomical observation facility operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology). List of minor planet discoverers and Table Mountain Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Takao Kobayashi

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and an outstanding discoverer of minor planets who currently works at the Ōizumi Observatory.

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Takashi Hasegawa

Takashi Hasegawa is an electrical engineer and programmer, who works at the Optoelectronic System Laboratory of Hitachi Cable, Ltd.

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Takeshi Urata

was a Japanese astronomer.

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Takuo Kojima

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Tamara Smirnova

Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (Тама́ра Миха́йловна Смирно́ва, Тама́ра Миха́йлівна Смирно́ва; December 15, 1935, Henichesk, Soviet Union — September 5, 2001, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Teide Observatory

Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at, located on Tenerife, Spain. List of minor planet discoverers and Teide Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Telescope

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

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Tenagra Observatories

Tenagra Observatory and Tenagra Observatory II are astronomical observatories in Cottage Grove, Oregon and Arizona.

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Tetsuo Kagawa

is a Japanese astronomer, staff member at the Gekko Observatory and discoverer of asteroids.

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Tetsuya Fujii

Tetsuya Fujii (藤井哲也, Fujii Tetsuya; born 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Thierry Pauwels

Thierry Pauwels (born 22 July 1957, Ghent) is a Belgian astronomer from the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

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Thomas J. Balonek

Thomas J. Balonek is a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. List of minor planet discoverers and Thomas J. Balonek are discoverers of minor planets.

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Thorvald N. Thiele

Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (24 December 1838 – 26 September 1910) was a Danish astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory.

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Timothy B. Spahr

Timothy Bruce Spahr (born 1970) is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Tod R. Lauer

Tod R. Lauer (born 1957) is an American astronomer on the research staff of the NSF NOIRLab.

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Tom Boles

Thomas Boles (born 1944 in Lennoxtown in Scotland) is a Scottish amateur astronomer, discoverer of astronomical objects, author, broadcaster and former communications and computer engineer, who observes from his private "Coddenham Observatory" in Coddenham, Suffolk, United Kingdom. List of minor planet discoverers and Tom Boles are discoverers of minor planets.

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Tom Gehrels

Anton M.J. "Tom" Gehrels (February 21, 1925 – July 11, 2011) was a Dutch–American astronomer, Professor of Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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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.

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Tomáš Vorobjov

Tomáš Vorobjov (born 1984) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and an observer and discoverer of minor planets, in particular near-Earth objects.

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Tomimaru Okuni

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at the Nanyo Observatory, Yamagata prefecture, Japan.

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Toshimasa Furuta

is a Japanese astronomer.

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Toshiro Nomura

is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of 13 asteroids with astronomers Kōyō Kawanishi and Matsuo Sugano.

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TRAPPIST

The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) is the corporate name for a pair of Belgian optic robotic telescopes. List of minor planet discoverers and TRAPPIST are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Tsuneo Niijima

is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer.

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Tsutomu Seki

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, born in Kōchi, Japan.

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UESAC

The Uppsala–ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC) took place in 1992–1993.

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Ulisse Munari

Ulisse Munari (born 1960) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Ulrika Babiaková

Ulrika Babiaková (3 April 1976 – 3 November 2002) was a Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.

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United States Naval Observatory

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.

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Uppsala Astronomical Observatory

The Uppsala Astronomical Observatory (UAO), Astronomiska observatoriet i Uppsala) is the oldest astronomical observatory in Sweden. It was founded in 1741, though there was a professorial chair of astronomy at the University of Uppsala from 1593 and the university archives include lecture notes in astronomy from the 1480s.

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Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey

The Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey (UDAS, also known as UAO–DLR Asteroid Survey) is an astronomical survey, dedicated for the search and follow–up characterization of asteroids and comets.

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Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey

The Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey (UDTS, also known as UAO–DLR Trojan Survey) is an astronomical survey to study the movements and locations of asteroids near Jupiter, which includes Jupiter trojans and other asteroids, which line-of sight are frequently blocked by the giant planet.

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V. P. Engel'gardt Astronomical Observatory

The V. P. Engel'gardt Astronomical Observatory, also known simply as the Engelhardt Observatory, is located 20 kilometers west of Kazan, Russia. List of minor planet discoverers and V. P. Engel'gardt Astronomical Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Variable star

A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes with time.

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Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope

The Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States.

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VERITAS

VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory with an array of four 12 meter optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV – TeV photon energy range.

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Višnjan Observatory

Višnjan Observatory (Zvjezdarnica Višnjan; obs. code: 120) is an astronomical observatory located near the village of Višnjan in Croatia. List of minor planet discoverers and Višnjan Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Viktor Knorre

Viktor Karlovich Knorre (Виктор Карлович Кнорре; 4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin.

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Vincenzo Cerulli

Vincenzo Cerulli (20 April 1859 – 30 May 1927) was an Italian astronomer and founder of the Collurania-Teramo Observatory in Teramo, central Italy, where he was born.

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Vincenzo Silvano Casulli

Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, usually known as Silvano Casulli (25 August 1944 – 24 July 2018) was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his Vallemare di Borbona Observatory in Lazio.

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Vincenzo Zappalà

Vincenzo Zappalà (born 1945) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of several main-belt asteroids.

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Violeta G. Ivanova

Violeta Ivanova (Виолета Иванова) is a Bulgarian astronomer.

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Vittorio Goretti

Vittorio Goretti (born 1939 – 7 July 2016) was an Italian amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at his observatory in Pianoro, on the outskirts of Bologna, Italy.

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Vladimir Albitsky

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky (Владимир Александрович Альбицкий) (16 June 1891 – 15 June 1952) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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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.

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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.

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Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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Walter Ferreri

Walter Ferreri (born 1948), originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at the Italian Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, science writer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Walter R. Cooney Jr.

Walter R. Cooney Jr. is an American chemical engineer, amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and variable stars.

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Warren B. Offutt

Warren B. Offutt (February 13, 1928 – September 20, 2017) was an American amateur astronomer and amateur radio operator.

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Werner Landgraf

Werner Landgraf (born 29 July 1959, in Mainz) is a German astrophysicist and a discoverer of minor planets.

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009.

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Wilhelm Julius Foerster

Wilhelm Julius Foerster (16 December 1832 – 18 January 1921) was a German astronomer.

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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.

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William Kwong Yu Yeung

William Kwong Yu Yeung (born 1960; also known simply as Bill Yeung) is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian amateur astronomer with telescopes based in the United States.

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William Liller

William Liller (April 1, 1927, Philadelphia – February 28, 2021) was an American astronomer, known for his research on "planetary nebulae, comets, asteroids, magnetic activity in cool stars, the optical identification of X-ray sources, and astro-archaeology.".

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Wise Observatory

The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University. List of minor planet discoverers and Wise Observatory are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Wolf Bickel

Wolf Bickel (born 6 July 1942, Bensberg) is a German amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at his private Bergisch Gladbach Observatory, Germany.

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Wolfgang Ries

Wolfgang Ries (born 1968) is an Austrian amateur astronomer, astrophotographer and discoverer of minor planets. List of minor planet discoverers and Wolfgang Ries are discoverers of minor planets.

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Xinglong Station (NAOC)

Xinglong Station is an observatory (IAU code 327) situated south of the main peak of the Yan Mountains in Xinglong County, Chengde, Hebei province, China. List of minor planet discoverers and Xinglong Station (NAOC) are minor-planet discovering observatories.

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Yoshiaki Banno

was a Japanese astronomer and co-discover of 4200 Shizukagozen, an asteroid of the main-belt.

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Yoshiaki Oshima

(born 1952) is a Japanese astronomer at Gekko Observatory and prolific discoverer of 61 asteroids as credited by the Minor Planet Center, and include the binary asteroid 4383 Suruga, the potentially hazardous object (7753) 1988 XB and the Jupiter trojan 4715 Medesicaste.

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Yoshikane Mizuno

is a Japanese astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids.

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Yoshio Kushida

is a Japanese seismologist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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Yoshisada Shimizu

is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993.

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Yrjö Väisälä

Yrjö Väisälä (6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.

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Zadko Observatory

Zadko Observatory is an astronomical observatory (obs. code: D20) located within the Wallingup Plain in the Gingin shire, Western Australia.

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Zdeňka Vávrová

Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer.

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Zdeněk Moravec

Zdeněk Moravec (born 1968) is a Czech astronomer and astrophysicist.

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Zhang Jiaxiang

Zhang Jiaxiang (30 October 1932 – 29 December 2019), also known as Chia-Hsiang Chang, is a Chinese astronomer affiliated with Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and president of the Minor Planet Foundation at that observatory.

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Zhang Yuzhe

Zhang Yuzhe (16 February 1902 – 21 July 1986), also known as Yu-Che Chang, was a Chinese astronomer and director of the Purple Mountain Observatory who is widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese astronomy.

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Zoran Knežević (astronomer)

Zoran Knežević (Зоран Кнежевић, born 23 August 1949 in Osijek) is a Serbian astronomer, who has been publishing since 1982.

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Zwicky Transient Facility

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, obs. code: I41) is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.

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(516977) 2012 HZ84

(provisional designation) is a small trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper belt located in the outermost region of the Solar System, approximately in diameter.

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1055 Tynka

1055 Tynka, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

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108P/Ciffréo

108P/Ciffréo is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 7 years discovered by Jacqueline Ciffréo on November 8, 1985.

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119P/Parker–Hartley

119P/Parker–Hartley is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

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1333 Cevenola

1333 Cevenola, provisional designation, is a binary Eunomian asteroid from the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter.

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2975 Spahr

2975 Spahr, provisional designation, is a bright background asteroid from the Flora region of the inner asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

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2I/Borisov

2I/Borisov, originally designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua.

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486958 Arrokoth

486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt.

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61P/Shajn–Schaldach

61P/Shajn–Schaldach is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.49 years.

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88P/Howell

88P/Howell is a periodic comet with a 5.5 year orbital period.

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See also

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References

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