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List of minor planets: 170001–171000

Index List of minor planets: 170001–171000

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55 relations: Altschwendt, Amor asteroid, Anderson Mesa Station, Apache Point Observatory, Apollo asteroid, Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca, Črni Vrh Observatory, Brazos Bend State Park, Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey, Catalina Sky Survey, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, David H. Levy, Desert Eagle Observatory, Gnosca Observatory, Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Haleakalā, James Whitney Young, John Broughton, Jura Observatory, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Kleť Observatory, Krisztián Sárneczky, Kvistaberg Observatory, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, List of asteroid-discovering observatories, List of minor planet discoverers, List of observatory codes, Loren C. Ball, Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search, Marc William Buie, Mauna Kea Observatories, Michel Ory, Mount Lemmon Observatory, Mount Lemmon Survey, Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking, Nogales, Arizona, Palomar Observatory, Piszkéstető Station, Potentially hazardous object, Powell Observatory, Rafael Pacheco, Reedy Creek Observatory, Roy A. Tucker, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Siding Spring Observatory, Siding Spring Survey, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Socorro, New Mexico, Spacewatch, Stefano Sposetti, ..., Thierry Pauwels, Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey, William Kwong Yu Yeung, Wise Observatory, Wrightwood, California. Expand index (5 more) »

Altschwendt

Altschwendt is a municipality in the district of Schärding in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

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Amor asteroid

The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor.

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Anderson Mesa Station

Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory.

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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.

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Apollo asteroid

The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s.

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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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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.

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Brazos Bend State Park

Brazos Bend State Park is a state park along the Brazos River in Needville, Texas, run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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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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Catalina Sky Survey

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

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is an astronomical observatory located on Cerro Tololo in the Coquimbo Region of northern Chile, with additional facilities located on Cerro Pachón about to the southeast.

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David H. Levy

David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian 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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Desert Eagle Observatory

Desert Eagle Observatory (code: 333) is a private amateur astronomical observatory, situated near Benson, Arizona, United States.

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Gnosca Observatory

The Gnosca Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico di Gnosca; code: 143) is an astronomical observatory at Gnosca, Ticino, Switzerland.

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Goodricke-Pigott Observatory

The Goodricke-Pigott Observatory is a private astronomical observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

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Haleakalā

Haleakalā (Hawaiian), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

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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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John Broughton

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

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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).

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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 O'odham Nation, west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

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Kleť Observatory

Kleť Observatory (Hvězdárna Kleť; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic.

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Krisztián Sárneczky

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

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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.

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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 MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects.

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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.

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List of minor planet discoverers

This is a list of all astronomers who are credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of one or several minor planets.

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List of observatory codes

This is a list of observatory codes, or IAU codes, with their corresponding astronomical 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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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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Marc William Buie

Marc William Buie (born 1958) is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets, who used to be at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and also the Sentinel Space Telescope Mission Scientist for the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impact events.

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Mauna Kea Observatories

The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a number 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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Michel Ory

Michel Ory (born 18 April 1966) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets, who was one of five winners of the 2009 Edgar Wilson Award for his discovery of 304P/Ory (P/2008 Q2 Ory), a periodic comet of the Jupiter family on 27 August 2008, using a 24-inch f/3.9 reflector at the Jura Observatory in Switzerland.

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Mount Lemmon Observatory

Mount Lemmon Observatory (MLO), also known as the Mount Lemmon Infrared Observatory, is an astronomical observatory located on Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains approximately northeast of Tucson, Arizona (US).

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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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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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Nogales, Arizona

Nogales is a city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

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Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in San Diego County, California, United States, southeast of Los Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range.

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Piszkéstető Station

The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an astronomical observatory in Mátraszentimre in Mátra Mountains, about 80 kilometers northeast of Hungary's capital Budapest.

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Potentially hazardous object

A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make exceptionally close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

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Powell Observatory

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

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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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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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Roy A. Tucker

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

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Royal Observatory of Belgium

The Royal Observatory of Belgium (Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België; Observatoire Royal de Belgique), has been situated in Uccle (Ukkel in Dutch) since 1890.

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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 metres Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia.

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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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Socorro, New Mexico

Socorro is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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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 Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States.

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Stefano Sposetti

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

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Thierry Pauwels

Thierry Pauwels (born 2 July 1957, Ghent) is a Belgian astronomer from the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

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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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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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Wise Observatory

The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University.

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Wrightwood, California

Wrightwood is a census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_170001–171000

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