Talk:List of minor planet discoverers

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Orphaned discoverers

This is a list of all discovering astronomers which I could not identify sufficiently to create a redirect to this page, for minor planets > 600000. At least a first name is required, and ideally their country of birth and dob/dod. Any help is appreciated.

Astronomer (name @ MPC)	Discovery	Discovery date
Sun, P.	616688 Gaowei	September 29, 2016
Gao, W.	616690 Liaoxi	December 31, 2016
Long, A. P.	650769	November 2, 2005
Castillo, L.	652310	January 1, 2003
Greatrex, R.	660280	July 29, 2000
Bredenkamp, T.	660280	July 29, 2000
Riehl, R. A.	661592	December 3, 2004
Li, A.	698372	December 14, 2017
Yuratich, B. K.	745152	October 10, 2010
Sun, P.	756836	September 14, 2020
Carvajal, V. F.	756999	June 10, 2024

~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:57, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

+3 ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Split people & institutions?

This page is part of the workflow of creating & maintaining the Lists of minor planets, but since Absolutiva tagged the article with {{Very long}}, should we split List of minor planet discoverers into List of minor planet discoverers (people) & List of minor planet discoverers (intitutions)? There are many redirects that will have to be adjusted. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:22, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to assume this is sufficient after another week or so with no objections. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Only the first letter of the first name and the last name of each discoverer can be found in the discoverers' list at the MPC:

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html

Here at this article, the full name and more information are listed. May I ask where this information comes from, since it cannot be found at the MPC? 62.225.62.250 (talk) 09:42, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]