Loren C. Ball

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Asteroids discovered: 35
34351 Decatur September 3, 2000
51599 Brittany April 28, 2001
(61400) 2000 QM6 August 25, 2000
(62701) 2000 TS32 October 7, 2000
(64123) 2001 TS18 October 15, 2001
(65260) 2002 GE2 April 6, 2002
(72834) 2001 HQ16 April 25, 2001
(73073) 2002 GA1 April 4, 2002
(73196) 2002 JZ10 May 8, 2002
(78284) 2002 PC43 August 11, 2002
(83596) 2001 SC263 September 25, 2001
(88377) 2001 PK29 August 15, 2001
(92586) 2000 PS8 August 9, 2000
(93164) 2000 SR89 September 29, 2000
(93466) 2000 TO October 2, 2000
(93490) 2000 TV33 October 8, 2000
(94404) 2001 SO287 September 30, 2001
(105272) 2000 QD25 August 26, 2000
(105508) 2000 RA9 September 3, 2000
(106096) 2000 TQ October 2, 2000
(108917) 2001 PX14 August 15, 2001
(112483) 2002 PA August 1, 2002
(112484) 2002 PB1 August 4, 2002
(112539) 2002 PB40 August 8, 2002
(114910) 2003 QA29 August 24, 2003
(115492) 2003 UR22 October 23, 2003
(119195) 2001 QF111 August 25, 2001
(120148) 2003 GO51 April 12, 2003
(125266) 2001 VG November 7, 2001
(128345) 2004 GY18 April 15, 2004
(131327) 2001 HC23 April 27, 2001
(131414) 2001 NB6 July 14, 2001
(131446) 2001 QP100 August 24, 2001
(132296) 2002 GB1 April 4, 2002
(132298) 2002 GD2 April 6, 2002

Loren C. Ball (born 1949, possibly 1948) is an accomplished amateur astronomer who has discovered a fair number of asteroids while working at his Emerald Lane Observatory in Decatur, Alabama. As of 2005, Mr. Ball had credit for the discovery of 147 asteroids with the Minor Planet Center at Harvard. Over the next few years, the majority of these discoveries will be given official numbered designations and become nameable. They will then be added to those listed in the accompanying table.


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