Claudine Rinner

Claudine Rinner
Born 1965
Residence Ottmarsheim
Nationality France
Known for astronomy

Claudine Rinner (born 1965) is a French amateur astronomer and discoverer of 56 minor planets, who received the Edgar Wilson Award for discovering three comets.[1]

Life

The orbit path of P/2011 W2 Rinner[2]
Comet P/2011 W2 (Rinner) Magnitude 17.5 by Charles Bell in 2011

Rinner lives at Ottmarsheim in Alsace in France.

She discovered three comets using a 0.5 metre robotic telescope located in Morocco. She won the 2013 Edgar Wilson Award for discovering three comets which were designated P/2011 W2 Rinner,[2] C/2012 CH17, and P/2013 CE31M.[3] There were seven awards that year and they shared $42,000 between them.[4]

The asteroid 23999 Rinner, discovered by French amateur astronomer Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in her honor.[1] Naming citation was published on 21 July 2005 (M.P.C. 54566).[5]

Discoveries

Claudine Rinner is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 58 minor planets between 2004 and 2007. Three of them were co-discoveries with François Kugel.[6]

200020 Cadi Ayyad July 14, 2007
214485 Dupouy October 26, 2005
(221175) 2005 UR7 October 26, 2005
(227337) 2005 UH8 October 27, 2005
(227749) 2006 HG58 April 21, 2006
(229441) 2005 UJ8 October 27, 2005
(229504) 2005 WA4 November 23, 2005
(236492) 2006 GG3 April 7, 2006
(245552) 2005 UF8 October 27, 2005
(255072) 2005 UP8 October 27, 2005
(261214) 2005 UO7 October 26, 2005
(262587) 2006 VD95 November 15, 2006
(277936) 2006 OO July 18, 2006
(280813) 2005 UQ7 October 26, 2005
(280879) 2005 WB4 November 23, 2005
(281069) 2006 OO10 July 25, 2006
(290773) 2005 VL3 November 6, 2005
(290774) 2005 VM4 November 6, 2005
(295790) 2008 UP255 September 6, 2004
(308507) 2005 US7 October 26, 2005
(309208) 2007 HZ14 April 22, 2007
(311402) 2005 UU7 October 26, 2005
(318903) 2005 UQ8 October 27, 2005
(354758) 2005 UB8 October 26, 2005
355022 Triman August 31, 2006
(355029) 2006 RH September 1, 2006
(358482) 2007 RL[1] September 1, 2007
(360008) 2012 YR[1] September 12, 2007
(363952) 2005 UE8 October 27, 2005
(367066) 2006 OP10 July 25, 2006
(371386) 2006 RE September 1, 2006
(371568) 2006 VC95 November 15, 2006
(376516) 2012 LH8[1] August 9, 2007
(391057) 2005 UWH7 October 26, 2005
(397027) 2005 UM8 October 27, 2005
(417130) 2005 VO4 November 7, 2005
(440793) 2006 OK10 July 25, 2006
(475017) 2005 UC8 October 26, 2005
(475781) 2006 XU1 December 10, 2006
1 co-discovered with F. Kugel

References

  1. 1 2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (23999) Rinner, Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 186. ISBN 978-3-540-34361-5. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: P/2011 W2 (Rinner)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  3. 2013 Comet Awards, Harvard, Retrieved 3 November 2015
  4. Kelly Beatty, (15 May 2016). "Amateur Comet Hunters get 2013 award". SkyAndTelecope.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  5. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  6. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.

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