Observations
Asteroid discoveries in SkyMorph archive
Searchers of the SkyMorph archive
In general there are two kind of users of SkyMorph image archive. At first they are
professional astronomers, who search for precovery positions of their
own discoveries. And there are amateur astronomers, who search for
precovery positions of unusual objects, but mainly hunt for undiscovered asteroids.
Since the SkyMorph archive was launched there was a rule, which said that credit
received the discoverer of asteroid in NEAT archive. In those times some amateur
astronomers were a real hunters and they discovered hundreds of new asteroids.
But after the rule changed, they lost their motivation to go on.
Summary of monthly discoveries from SkyMorph archive (644)
In the table below you can see the mohtly number of new disoveries from NEAT/Palomar
Observatory. There were not published Observation summary in several moths, e.g. in
March 2009, September and October 2008 - it means that discoveries of those months
are included in figures of next monthly Obs summary.
Asteroid discoveries in NEAT archive - overview
|
Year
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Total
|
|
2003
|
-
|
1324
|
487
|
-
|
-
|
1176
|
-
|
-
|
1531
|
-
|
3093
|
-
|
7611
|
|
2004
|
-
|
1397
|
-
|
-
|
2573
|
-
|
-
|
1439
|
-
|
-
|
1070
|
-
|
6479
|
|
2005
|
-
|
641
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
709
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4506
|
-
|
-
|
5856
|
|
2006
|
-
|
-
|
1333
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
943
|
-
|
2596
|
-
|
-
|
2080
|
5619
|
|
2007
|
395
|
159
|
407
|
253
|
190
|
322
|
131
|
269
|
180
|
80
|
100
|
54
|
1579
|
|
2008
|
96
|
32
|
116
|
84
|
35
|
85
|
81
|
107
|
-
|
-
|
123
|
79
|
594
|
|
2009
|
59
|
101
|
-
|
78
|
54
|
69
|
51
|
109
|
57
|
89
|
102
|
72
|
609
|
|
2010
|
145
|
101
|
78
|
12
|
15
|
0
|
39
|
0
|
0
|
-
|
77
|
-
|
476
|
|
2011
|
246
|
87
|
107
|
66
|
6
|
76
|
132
|
77
|
29
|
16
|
67
|
46
|
955
|
|
2012
|
17
|
12
|
8
|
1
|
31
|
-
|
-
|
35
|
-
|
64
|
13
|
22
|
203
|
|
2013
|
22
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
-
|
32
|
4
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
63
|
|
2014
|
16
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
6
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
39
|
|
2015 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
- |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
25
|
|
2016 |
- |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
0
|
Nowadays there are only few dedicated hunters of uncatalogized asteroids in SkyMorph archive. You can see the summary of individuals total discoveries in the table below.
List of individual discoverers from SkyMorph archive
This data are based on individual statistics of each hunter. The discoveries numbers means all objects found in SkyMoprh archive images, which were sent to MPC and received provisional designations by individual observers.
The total disvoveries of numbered asteroids from NEAT program (period 1995-2007) as for 2016 August 20: 40 813.
Because of change of credit rule there are also discoveries made from NEAT archive but credited to some individual observers. That is why this summary is could not meant to be an official and complete numbers of discoveries in NEAT archive.
Discoverers total from NEAT image archive
|
Discoverer
|
Total number
of discoveries
|
Numbered
asteroids
|
Searching
period
|
Country
|
| Reinder J. Bouma |
6000
|
1675
|
since 2005
|
Netherland
|
|
Rob D. Matson
|
1169
|
313
|
since 2003
|
USA
|
|
Sebastian F. Hönig
|
470
|
247
|
2002-2003
|
Germany
|
|
Zhangwei Jin
|
318
|
69
|
2006 Mar - 2008 Apr
|
China
|
|
Tao Chen
|
210
|
14
|
2005 Dec - 2007 Jan
|
China
|
|
Stefan Kürti
|
155
|
76
|
since 2006 May
|
Slovakia
|
|
Harald Bill
|
136
|
40
|
since 2008 Oct
|
Germany
|
|
Quanzhi Ye
|
90
|
3
|
2005-2006
|
China
|
|
Andrew Lowe
|
86
|
55
|
2002-2003
|
Canada
|
|
Krisztián Sárneczky
|
58
|
21
|
since 2003
|
Hungary
|
|
Marco Langbroek
|
58
|
35
|
since 2004 Aug
|
Netherlands
|
|
Minor White
|
33
|
7
|
2001-2003
|
USA
|
|
Shihong Yuan
|
23
|
1
|
2008 Dec
|
China
|
|
Maik Meyer
|
16
|
6
|
2003
|
Germany
|
|
Rainer Kracht
|
15
|
2
|
since 2009 Oct
|
Germany
|
|
Piaoyang Cui
|
12
|
1
|
2005 Oct - 2006 Jul
|
China
|
|
Kazimieras Cernis
|
8
|
2
|
2003 July - August
|
Lithuania
|
|
Tomas Vorobjov
|
8
|
-
|
2010 Feb
|
Slovakia
|
|
Alexander Mimejev
|
7
|
2
|
since 2008 Oct
|
Russia
|
|
Tibor Csörgei
|
7
|
-
|
since 2009 Feb
|
Slovakia
|
|
Matthieu Contensou
|
6
|
1
|
since 2012 May
|
France
|
|
Martin Mašek
|
2
|
-
|
since 2009 Oct
|
Czech Republic
|
|
Shishir Deshmukh
|
2
|
-
|
since 2011 Sep
|
India
|
|
Man-to Hui
|
1
|
1
|
2006 Jan -July
|
China
|
|
Liaoshan Shi
|
1
|
-
|
2006 July - August
|
China
|
|
László Németh
|
1
|
-
|
since 2010 Nov
|
Hungary
|
Last update: 2014 July 14
I put in the table only data I learned from each hunter. So if you know about anyone else who should be added here, please let me know about it --->>> here !
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