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).
The Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory is a private observatory near Andrushivka in Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine. The observatory has IAU observatory code A50.
It has discovered the following asteroids:
The Korean Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory (BOAO), located at Mount Bohyeon near the city of Yeongcheon, 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 2 m class telescope, a high dispersion echelle spectrograph, and an iodine absorption cell for precise RV measurements, looking for extrasolar planets.[1]
It has discovered the following asteroids:
Between 1968 and 1982, Carlos Torres discovered or co-discovered with S. Cofré and others a number of asteroids from the Chilean Cerro El Roble Station. It has discovered the following asteroids:
This is the private observatory of Naoto Sato in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan.[2] This Observatory has IAU observatory code 369.[3]
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
Tsutomu Seki is the director of the Geisei Observatory in Geisei, Kōchi, Japan.
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
Kitami Observatory has discovered the following asteroids:
Private observatory of Robert Linderholm (1933–2013); it discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
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 has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
See main article: Sormano Astronomical Observatory.
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 observatory's 0.5-meter telescope was named in his honor.
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
The Rozhen Observatory has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
It has discovered the following asteroids:
At Yorii Observatory, Japanese amateur astronomers Masaru Arai and Hiroshi Mori have discovered 45 minor planets (credited by the MPC as per 2016):Scr
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: