Minor Planet Discovery Sites
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 2023 Dec. 3.
Rank Discoveries Between Site name
1 149421 1960-2012 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
2 144267 1960-2018 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
3 82515 1960-2021 Mt. Lemmon Survey
4 69396 1960-2020 Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala
5 36766 1960-2018 Palomar Mountain/NEAT
6 29612 1960-2018 Catalina Sky Survey
7 21352 1993-2016 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
8 7838 1993-2016 Haleakala-AMOS
9 6854 1949-2008 Palomar Mountain
10 6715 1992-2018 LPL/Spacewatch II
11 5776 1976-2017 European Southern Observatory, La Silla
12 3678 1960-2015 OAM Observatory, La Sagra
13 3582 1977-2018 WISE
14 3039 1991-2021 Palomar Mountain--ZTF
15 2985 1993-2018 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey
16 2750 1992-2018 Siding Spring Survey
17 2476 1991-2002 Oizumi
18 2279 1977-2017 Space Surveillance Telescope, Atom Site
19 1975 1960-2017 Oukaimeden Observatory, Marrakech
20 1931 1990-2018 Purple Mountain Observatory, XuYi Station
21 1867 1975-2012 Siding Spring Observatory
22 1604 1981-2018 Kitt Peak
23 1584 2001-2008 Desert Eagle Observatory
24 1479 1996-2017 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS
25 1407 1995-2001 Visnjan
26 1292 1992-2018 Maunakea
27 1286 1966-2007 Crimea-Nauchnyi
28 1275 1982-2011 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station
29 1208 1997-2008 Reedy Creek
30 1152 1994-2017 ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife
31 1089 1977-2015 Tenagra II Observatory, Nogales
32 1082 1994-2017 Bergisch Gladbach
33 1026 1995-2016 University of Szeged, Piszkesteto Stn. (Konkoly)
34 958 1996-1999 Caussols-ODAS
958 1978-2018 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena
36 929 2003-2012 Apache Point
37 901 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice
38 897 1977-2011 Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban
39 879 1996-2010 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson
40 826 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl
41 723 1987-2000 Kushiro
42 721 1994-2010 Ondrejov
43 715 1973-2017 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station
715 1977-2016 ISON-NM Observatory, Mayhill
45 700 1987-2009 Kitami
46 686 1994-2015 Crni Vrh
47 671 1995-2003 Prescott
48 626 1996-2016 Bisei Spaceguard Center-BATTeRS
49 572 1993-2021 Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala
50 568 1995-2002 Haleakala-NEAT/GEODSS