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 2010 Aug. 26.
Rank Discoveries Between Site name
1 116584 1980-2010 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
2 30810 1981-2010 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
3 18603 1999-2007 Palomar Mountain/NEAT
4 15194 1998-2008 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
5 8504 1998-2010 Catalina Sky Survey
6 6618 1949-2007 Palomar Mountain
7 6089 1995-2006 Haleakala-AMOS
8 5525 1976-2005 European Southern Observatory, La Silla
9 5524 2004-2010 Mt. Lemmon Survey
10 2456 1991-2002 Oizumi
11 1868 2001-2009 LPL/Spacewatch II
12 1774 1975-2007 Siding Spring Observatory
13 1385 1995-2001 Visnjan
14 1312 2001-2005 Desert Eagle Observatory
15 1285 1966-1992 Crimea-Nauchnij
16 1228 1982-2002 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station
17 890 1996-1999 Caussols-ODAS
18 884 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice
19 865 1997-2008 Reedy Creek
20 850 2004-2010 Siding Spring Survey
21 822 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl
22 801 1996-2005 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS
23 723 1987-2000 Kushiro
24 701 1973-2007 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station
25 664 1987-2006 Kitami
26 630 1994-2003 Ondrejov
27 600 1995-2003 Prescott
28 547 1996-2008 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson
29 543 1995-2002 Haleakala-NEAT/GEODSS
30 536 1961-1995 Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Tautenburg
31 486 1999-2003 Fountain Hills
32 366 1998-2004 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey
33 321 1993-2000 Nachi-Katsuura Observatory
34 315 1995-2009 Bergisch Gladbach
35 306 1982-2006 Kitt Peak
36 303 1997-2010 Crni Vrh
37 287 2006-2010 OAM Observatory, La Sagra
38 285 1978-2006 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena
39 273 1978-1996 Caussols
273 1925-2009 Uccle
41 249 1994-2008 San Marcello Pistoiese
42 245 1998-2007 Farpoint Observatory, Eskridge
43 237 2000-2001 Desert Beaver Observatory
44 224 1981-2008 Geisei
45 202 1975-2005 Uppsala-Kvistaberg
46 199 1935-1953 Turku
199 1996-2008 George Observatory, Needville
48 197 1997-1999 Woomera
49 185 1999-2009 University of Szeged, Piszkesteto Stn. (Konkoly)
50 184 1993-2009 Farra d'Isonzo
