Minor Planet Discovery Sites (original) (raw)

The following table lists the total number of discoveries made at each of the most prolific discovery sites, arranged in decreasing order of number of discoveries.

This list was last updated on 2024 Oct. 8.

Rank Discoveries Between Site name

1   163230       1960-2022   Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
2   150498       1960-2012   Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
3   108640       1960-2022   Mt. Lemmon Survey
4   103858       1960-2024   Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala
5    38837       1960-2019   Palomar Mountain/NEAT
6    31440       1960-2019   Catalina Sky Survey
7    21615       1993-2017   Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
8     7955       1995-2017   Haleakala-AMOS
9     7909       1992-2018   LPL/Spacewatch II

10 6856 1949-2014 Palomar Mountain 11 5855 1976-2017 European Southern Observatory, La Silla 12 5755 1977-2020 WISE 13 4252 1993-2018 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey 14 3943 1960-2017 OAM Observatory, La Sagra 15 3763 1991-2021 Palomar Mountain--ZTF 16 3066 1977-2017 Space Surveillance Telescope, Atom Site 17 3003 1992-2018 Siding Spring Survey 18 2584 1960-2017 Oukaimeden Observatory, Marrakech 19 2476 1991-2002 Oizumi 20 2430 1990-2020 Purple Mountain Observatory, XuYi Station 21 2140 1981-2019 Kitt Peak 22 1889 1975-2017 Siding Spring Observatory 23 1795 1992-2018 Maunakea 24 1590 2001-2008 Desert Eagle Observatory 25 1541 1996-2017 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS 26 1466 1994-2018 ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife 27 1407 1995-2001 Visnjan 28 1336 1993-2023 Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala 29 1286 1966-2007 Crimea-Nauchnyi 30 1278 1982-2011 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station 31 1271 1994-2017 Bergisch Gladbach 32 1264 1978-2018 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena 33 1254 1995-2017 University of Szeged, Piszkesteto Stn. (Konkoly) 34 1248 1977-2017 Tenagra II Observatory, Nogales 35 1226 1997-2008 Reedy Creek 36 1102 2003-2016 Apache Point 37 1030 1977-2011 Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban 38 968 1996-2005 Caussols-ODAS 39 901 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice 40 894 1996-2010 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson 41 878 1977-2016 ISON-NM Observatory, Mayhill 42 826 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl 43 730 1994-2010 Ondrejov 44 728 1994-2015 Crni Vrh 45 723 1987-2000 Kushiro 46 721 1973-2017 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station 47 700 1987-2009 Kitami 48 681 1995-2016 Elena Remote Observatory, San Pedro de Atacama 49 673 1995-2003 Prescott 50 657 1996-2016 Bisei Spaceguard Center-BATTeRS