Claudine Rinner


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Claudine Rinner is a French amateur astronomer at Ottmarsheim Observatory and a discoverer of minor planets, who received the Edgar Wilson Award for discovering three comets.

Life

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, C/2012 CH17, and P/2013 CE31M. There were seven awards that year and they shared $42,000 between them.

Awards and honors

The asteroid 23999 Rinner, discovered by French amateur astronomer Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 July 2005.

Discoveries

Claudine Rinner is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 59 minor planets between 2004 and 2007. Three of them were co-discoveries with François Kugel.

List of discovered minor planets

Some of Claudine Rinner's discoveries were made in collaboration with François Kugel
90533 Laurentblind28 March 2004
120375 Kugel10 August 2005
128627 Ottmarsheim6 September 2004
133892 Benkhaldoun7 September 2004
145566 Andreasphilipp25 July 2006
152320 Lichtenknecker27 October 2005
23 November 2005
157541 Wachter27 October 2005
158913 Kreider9 September 2004
164587 Taesch17 July 2007

7 April 2006
200020 Cadi Ayyad14 July 2007
214485 Dupouy26 October 2005
26 October 2005
27 October 2005
21 April 2006
27 October 2005
23 November 2005
7 April 2006
27 October 2005

26 October 2005
22 April 2007
26 October 2005
27 October 2005
26 October 2005
355022 Triman31 August 2006
355029 Herve1 September 2006
1 September 2007 
12 September 2007 
27 October 2005