| William Herschel | 709 |
| John Frederick William Herschel | 581 |
| Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research | 454 |
| Albert Marth | 163 |
| Heinrich Louis d'Arrest | 139 |
| Édouard Stephan | 139 |
| Lewis A. Swift | 121 |
| Francis Preserved Leavenworth | 119 |
| Eric Walter Elst | 115 |
| William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | 99 |
| Nikolai Chernykh | 74 |
| Edward L. G. Bowell | 66 |
| Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld | 66 |
| James Dunlop | 57 |
| Schelte J. Bus | 43 |
| Pan-STARRS1 | 40 |
| Wilhelm Tempel | 38 |
| Ormond Stone | 36 |
| Frank Muller | 34 |
| Eleanor F. Helin | 32 |
| Takao Kobayashi | 31 |
| Lyudmila Chernykh | 30 |
| Krisztián Sárneczky | 28 |
| Vincenzo Silvano Casulli | 27 |
| Carolyn S. Shoemaker | 24 |
| Freimut Börngen | 23 |
| Lyudmila Karachkina | 23 |
| Antonín Mrkos | 22 |
| Eugene Merle Shoemaker | 22 |
| Lyudmila Zhuravlyova | 22 |
| Kin Endate | 21 |
| Hiroshi Kaneda | 18 |
| Henri Debehogne | 17 |
| Nicolas Louis de Lacaille | 16 |
| Robert H. McNaught | 14 |
| Uppsala–ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets | 14 |
| Henry E. Holt | 13 |
| Indiana Asteroid Program | 13 |
| Guillaume Bigourdan | 12 |
| Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | 12 |
| Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse | 12 |
| Tsutomu Seki | 12 |
| Mount Lemmon Survey | 11 |
| Petrus Plancius | 11 |
| Tamara Smirnova | 11 |
| Toshimasa Furuta | 11 |
| Charles W. Juels | 10 |
| Edward Emerson Barnard | 10 |
| Michel Ory | 10 |
| Spacewatch | 10 |
| Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer | 10 |
| Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking | 9 |
| Poul Jensen | 9 |
| Štefan Kürti | 9 |
| Jean-Claude Merlin | 8 |
| Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search | 8 |
| Ralph Copeland | 8 |
| Takeshi Urata | 8 |
| Brigitta Sipőcz | 7 |
| Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist | 7 |
| Félix Aguilar Observatory | 7 |
| John Louis Emil Dreyer | 7 |
| N. R. Pogson | 7 |
| Norman G. Thomas | 7 |
| Takuo Kojima | 7 |
| Annibale de Gasparis | 6 |
| Atsushi Sugie | 6 |
| Catalina Sky Survey | 6 |
| Edward S. Holden | 6 |
| High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher | 6 |
| Hiroki Kosai | 6 |
| Johann Palisa | 6 |
| Johannes Hevelius | 6 |
| Purple Mountain Observatory | 6 |
| Quanzhi Ye | 6 |
| Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program | 5 |
| Bernard Christophe | 5 |
| Brian A. Skiff | 5 |
| Carlos Torres | 5 |
| Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | 5 |
| George Mary Searle | 5 |
| Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin | 5 |
| James Whitney Young | 5 |
| Osamu Muramatsu | 5 |
| Satoru Otomo | 5 |
| Zdeňka Vávrová | 5 |
| Alphonse Borrelly | 4 |
| Geoffrey Marcy | 4 |
| Jost Jahn | 4 |
| Kenzo Suzuki | 4 |
| Marc Buie | 4 |
| Oak Ridge Observatory | 4 |
| OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey | 4 |
| Pan-STARRS | 4 |
| Paul G. Comba | 4 |
| Péter Székely | 4 |
| Thierry Pauwels | 4 |
| Timur Kryachko | 4 |
| Zoltán Kuli | 4 |
| Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie | 3 |
| David H. Levy | 3 |
| Edward D. Swift | 3 |
| George Phillips Bond | 3 |
| Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt | 3 |
| John Russell Hind | 3 |
| Juan Lacruz | 3 |
| Kazurō Watanabe | 3 |
| Kleť Observatory | 3 |
| Lawrence H. Wasserman | 3 |
| Leonid Elenin | 3 |
| Lin Hongqin | 3 |
| Luboš Kohoutek | 3 |
| Masanori Matsuyama | 3 |
| Perth Observatory | 3 |
| Steven S. Vogt | 3 |
| Yoshiaki Oshima | 3 |
| Zdeněk Moravec | 3 |