List of minor planet discoverers

This is a list of minor-planet discoverers for people who have discovered of one or more minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects).^[1] As of January 2022^[update], the discovery of 612,011 numbered minor planets are from 1141 astronomers and 253 observatories, telescopes or surveys (see § Discovering dedicated institutions).

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