List of asteroid-discovering observatories

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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.

For each numbered asteroid, the Minor Planet Center lists one or more discoverers who have been given credit for the discovery. Sometimes these are individuals (by modern rules there can be no more than three co-discoverers), and sometimes the credit is given to an organization (for instance, Purple Mountain Observatory).

Observatories

Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory

It is a private observatory near Andrushivka in Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine. The observatory has IAU observatory code A50.^[1]

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory

Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory is a member of the East-Asian Planet Search Network, an international collaboration between Korea, China and Japan. Each facility, BOAO (Korea), Xinglong Station (NAOC) (China), and Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (Japan), has a 2m class telescope, a high dispersion echelle spectrograph, and an iodine absorption cell for precise RV measurements, looking for extrasolar planets.^[2]

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station

Between 1968 and 1982, Carlos Torres discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids from the University of Chile's Cerro El Roble Astronomical Station.

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Chichibu Observatory

This is the private observatory of Naoto Sato in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan.^[3] This Observatory has IAU observatory code 369.^[1]

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Dynic Astronomical Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Emerald Lane Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Fair Oaks Ranch Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Geisei Observatory

Tsutomu Seki is the director of the Geisei Observatory in Kōchi, Japan.

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Jurassien-Vicques Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Kingsnake Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Kitami Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Lime Creek Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Mount Nyukasa Station

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Nanyo Observatory

Nanyo Civil Astronomical Observatory was established in 1986 by the Nanyo Astronomical Lovers Club, located in Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan. This astronomy society was founded in 1983.^[4]

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Oaxaca Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Agliale

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Osservatorio Astronomico di Pianoro

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Osservatorio Astronomico Sormano

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Marco Cavagna, operating from (Sormano Astronomical Observatory) in Italy discovered numerous asteroids. Cavagna died of a stroke on August 9, 2005 and the 50 cm. R/C telescope in Sormano Observatory is now named after him.

Osservatorio Colleverde di Guidonia

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Rand Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory

The Rozhen Observatory has discovered the following asteroids:

Sendai Astronomical Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Sunflower Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Tenagra II Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Tzec Maun Observatory (Mayhill)

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Uenohara Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Uto Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Yatsugatake-Kobuchizawa

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Yorii Observatory

It has discovered the following asteroids:

Zeno Observatory

Tom Stafford discovered a number of asteroids since 1997, including 12061 Alena, 12533 Edmond, 13436 Enid, 13688 Oklahoma, at Zeno Observatory (observatory code 727) in Edmond, Oklahoma.

It has discovered the following asteroids:

See also

• List of asteroids (and its subpages)
• List of observatory codes

References

External links

• Minor planet discoverers (alphabetically)
• Minor planet discoverers (ordered by number of discoveries)
• Reports from Geisei Observatory
• The telescopes at Geisei Observatory
• Marco Cavagna's obituary at the Sormano Observatory website

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