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 2009 Nov. 3.
Rank Discoveries Between Site name
1 109654 1980-2009 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
2 24278 1981-2009 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
3 16087 1999-2007 Palomar Mountain/NEAT
4 13839 1998-2008 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
5 6747 1998-2009 Catalina Sky Survey
6 6554 1949-2007 Palomar Mountain
7 5616 1995-2006 Haleakala-AMOS
8 5486 1976-2005 European Southern Observatory, La Silla
9 3444 2004-2009 Mt. Lemmon Survey
10 2446 1991-2002 Oizumi
11 1749 1975-2007 Siding Spring Observatory
12 1489 2001-2009 LPL/Spacewatch II
13 1377 1995-2001 Visnjan
14 1285 1966-1992 Crimea-Nauchnij
15 1224 2001-2005 Desert Eagle Observatory
16 1217 1982-2002 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station
17 877 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice
18 865 1996-1999 Caussols-ODAS
19 822 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl
20 781 1997-2008 Reedy Creek
21 723 1987-2000 Kushiro
22 698 1973-2000 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station
23 692 1996-2005 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS
24 662 1987-2006 Kitami
25 633 2004-2008 Siding Spring Survey
26 614 1994-2003 Ondrejov
27 584 1995-2003 Prescott
28 539 1995-2002 Haleakala-NEAT/GEODSS
29 536 1961-1995 Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Tautenburg
30 479 1999-2003 Fountain Hills
31 469 1996-2008 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson
32 321 1993-2000 Nachi-Katsuura Observatory
33 273 1978-1996 Caussols
34 269 1997-2009 Crni Vrh
35 265 1978-2006 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena
36 264 1995-2009 Bergisch Gladbach
37 262 1998-2004 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey
262 1925-2005 Uccle
39 253 1982-2006 Kitt Peak
40 239 1994-2007 San Marcello Pistoiese
41 236 2000-2001 Desert Beaver Observatory
42 223 1981-1998 Geisei
43 222 1998-2007 Farpoint Observatory, Eskridge
44 199 1935-1953 Turku
45 196 1997-1999 Woomera
46 182 1975-2005 Uppsala-Kvistaberg
47 179 1993-2008 Farra d'Isonzo
48 175 1987-2000 Gekko
175 1996-2008 George Observatory, Needville
50 164 1988-1999 Nihondaira Observatory
