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 2025 Feb. 6.
Rank Discoveries Between Site name
1 169342 1960-2022 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
2 150723 1960-2012 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
3 118329 1960-2022 Mt. Lemmon Survey
4 117058 1960-2024 Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala
5 39203 1960-2019 Palomar Mountain/NEAT
6 32007 1960-2019 Catalina Sky Survey
7 21676 1993-2017 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
8 8246 1992-2018 LPL/Spacewatch II
9 7964 1995-2017 Haleakala-AMOS
10 6856 1949-2014 Palomar Mountain
11 5907 1977-2021 WISE
12 5878 1976-2017 European Southern Observatory, La Silla
13 4536 1993-2018 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey
14 4042 1960-2017 OAM Observatory, La Sagra
15 3959 1991-2021 Palomar Mountain--ZTF
16 3277 1977-2017 Space Surveillance Telescope, Atom Site
17 3049 1992-2018 Siding Spring Survey
18 2759 1960-2018 Oukaimeden Observatory, Marrakech
19 2565 1990-2020 Purple Mountain Observatory, XuYi Station
20 2476 1991-2002 Oizumi
21 2297 1981-2018 Kitt Peak
22 1956 1992-2019 Maunakea
23 1892 1975-2017 Siding Spring Observatory
24 1632 1993-2023 Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala
25 1594 2001-2008 Desert Eagle Observatory
26 1589 1994-2018 ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife
27 1559 1996-2017 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS
28 1407 1995-2001 Visnjan
29 1360 1978-2018 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena
30 1330 1995-2017 University of Szeged, Piszkesteto Stn. (Konkoly)
31 1312 1994-2017 Bergisch Gladbach
32 1301 1977-2017 Tenagra II Observatory, Nogales
33 1286 1966-2007 Crimea-Nauchnyi
34 1278 1982-2011 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station
35 1230 1997-2008 Reedy Creek
36 1127 2003-2016 Apache Point
37 1068 1977-2011 Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban
38 968 1996-2005 Caussols-ODAS
39 916 1977-2016 ISON-NM Observatory, Mayhill
40 901 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice
41 899 1996-2010 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson
42 826 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl
43 741 1994-2021 Crni Vrh
44 731 1994-2010 Ondrejov
45 724 1973-2017 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station
46 723 1987-2000 Kushiro
47 716 1995-2016 Elena Remote Observatory, San Pedro de Atacama
48 700 1987-2009 Kitami
49 673 1995-2003 Prescott
50 669 1996-2016 Bisei Spaceguard Center-BATTeRS