Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s discovered: 35

34351 Decatur 34351 Decatur -Orbit Information:* *...	September 3, 2000
51599 Brittany 51599 Brittany 51599 Brittany is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 28, 2001 by Loren C. Ball at Emerald Lane Observatory.- External links :*...	April 28, 2001
	August 25, 2000
	October 7, 2000
	October 15, 2001
	April 6, 2002
	April 25, 2001
	April 4, 2002
	May 8, 2002
	August 11, 2002
	September 25, 2001
	August 15, 2001
	August 9, 2000
	September 29, 2000
(93466) 2000 TO	October 2, 2000
	October 8, 2000
	September 30, 2001
	August 26, 2000
	September 3, 2000
(106096) 2000 TQ	October 2, 2000
	August 15, 2001
(112483) 2002 PA	August 1, 2002
	August 4, 2002
	August 8, 2002
	August 24, 2003
	October 23, 2003
	August 25, 2001
	April 12, 2003
(125266) 2001 VG	November 7, 2001
	April 15, 2004
	April 27, 2001
	July 14, 2001
	August 24, 2001
	April 4, 2002
	April 6, 2002

Loren C. Ball (born 1949, possibly 1948) is an accomplished amateur astronomer who has discovered a fair number of asteroids while working at his Emerald Lane Observatory in Decatur, Alabama. As of 2005, Mr. Ball had credit for the discovery of 147 asteroids with the Minor Planet Center at Harvard. Over the next few years, the majority of these discoveries will be given official numbered designations and become nameable. They will then be added to those listed in the accompanying table.

External links

• Barnard-Seyfert Astronomical Society page on L. C. Ball
• An Amateur Story, The Huntsville Times, 2001