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.
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
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
The Korean Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO) 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 with S. Cofré and others 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:
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
The Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy has discovered the asteroid 344581 Albisetti. Previously accredited discoveries have now been reassigned to the various amateur astronomers using the observatory. These include Valter Giuliani, Piero Sicoli, Pierangelo Ghezzi, Francesco Manca, Paolo Chiavenna, Graziano Ventre and Augusto Testa.
Marco Cavagna, was also an observer and discoverer of minor planets at Sormano until his death in 2005. The obsevatory's 0.5-meter telescope was named in his honor.
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 minor planets § Main index
- List of observatory codes
- List of minor planet discoverers § Discovering dedicated institutions
References
- ^ a b "List Of Observatory Codes". IAU Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
- ^ Izumiura, Hideyuki (June 2005). "An East-Asian Extra-Solar Planet Search Network". Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society: 81–84. Bibcode:2005JKAS...38...81I. doi:10.5303/JKAS.2005.38.2.81. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ Schmadel (2003:504)
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). Springer. p. 754. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.