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 June 11.
Rank Discoveries Between Site name
1 174105 1960-2023 Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch
2 150778 1960-2012 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico
3 132116 1960-2024 Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala
4 128048 1960-2023 Mt. Lemmon Survey
5 39549 1960-2019 Palomar Mountain/NEAT
6 32307 1960-2020 Catalina Sky Survey
7 21697 1993-2017 Lowell Observatory-LONEOS
8 8660 1992-2020 LPL/Spacewatch II
9 8428 1995-2017 Haleakala-AMOS
10 6884 1949-2014 Palomar Mountain
11 6828 1977-2022 WISE
12 5926 1976-2018 European Southern Observatory, La Silla
13 4813 1993-2021 Apache Point-Sloan Digital Sky Survey
14 4054 1960-2017 OAM Observatory, La Sagra
15 3951 1991-2021 Palomar Mountain--ZTF
16 3263 1977-2017 Space Surveillance Telescope, Atom Site
17 3085 1992-2018 Siding Spring Survey
18 3047 1981-2019 Kitt Peak
19 2870 1992-2019 Maunakea
20 2747 1960-2018 Oukaimeden Observatory, Marrakech
21 2640 1993-2023 Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala
22 2563 1990-2021 Purple Mountain Observatory, XuYi Station
23 2476 1991-2002 Oizumi
24 2213 1978-2017 Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena
25 1898 1975-2017 Siding Spring Observatory
26 1645 1994-2019 ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife
27 1630 1996-2017 Campo Imperatore-CINEOS
28 1594 2001-2008 Desert Eagle Observatory
29 1407 1995-2001 Visnjan
30 1363 1995-2017 University of Szeged, Piszkesteto Stn. (Konkoly)
31 1337 1994-2018 Bergisch Gladbach
32 1312 1995-2017 Tenagra II Observatory, Nogales
33 1287 1966-2014 Crimea-Nauchnyi
34 1283 1982-2011 Peking Observatory, Xinglong Station
35 1227 1997-2008 Reedy Creek
36 1186 2003-2016 Apache Point
37 1081 1994-2011 Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban
38 970 1996-2005 Caussols-ODAS
39 934 1977-2016 ISON-NM Observatory, Mayhill
40 904 1977-2002 Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice
41 903 1996-2010 Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, Tucson
42 826 1891-2007 Heidelberg-Konigstuhl
43 743 1994-2021 Crni Vrh
44 737 1994-2010 Ondrejov
45 726 1973-2017 Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa Station
46 723 1987-2000 Kushiro
47 713 1995-2016 Elena Remote Observatory, San Pedro de Atacama
48 712 1996-2016 Bisei Spaceguard Center-BATTeRS
49 700 1987-2009 Kitami
50 674 1995-2003 Prescott