# Claudine Rinner

Minor planets discovered: 60 :
* see § List of discovered minor planets
Claudine Rinner (born 1965) is a French amateur astronomer from Ottmarsheim in Alsace, France. She is an observer at Ottmarsheim Observatory (224) and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who received the Edgar Wilson Award for her discoveries.

## Career

Participant in the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey (MOSS), Rinner discovered three comets using a 0.5-metre robotic telescope at Oukaïmeden Observatory located in Morocco. She won the 2013 Edgar Wilson Award for discovering three comets which were designated 373P/Rinner (P/2011 W2), C/2012 CH$_{17}$ (MOSS), and 281P/MOSS (P/2013 CE$_{31}$). Rinner is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of more than 100 minor planets since 2004, including several co-discoveries with François Kugel (see list below).

### 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 (M.P.C. 54566).
In 2020, she and Michel Ory jointly received the Dorothea Klumpke – Isaac Roberts prize from the Société astronomique de France.

## Discoveries
### List of discovered minor planets

Some of Claudine Rinner's discoveries were made in collaboration with $^A$ François Kugel
| 90533 Laurentblind | 28 March 2004 | list |
| 120375 Kugel | 10 August 2005 | list |
| 128627 Ottmarsheim | 6 September 2004 | list |
| 133892 Benkhaldoun | 7 September 2004 | list |
| 145566 Andreasphilipp | 25 July 2006 | list |
| 152320 Lichtenknecker | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (152472) 2005 WZ$_3$ | 23 November 2005 | list |
| 157541 Wachter | 27 October 2005 | list |
| 158913 Kreider | 9 September 2004 | list |
| 164587 Taesch | 17 July 2007 | list |
| (168127) 2006 GC$_3$ | 6 April 2006 | list |
| (175402) 2006 OL$_{10}$ | 25 July 2006 | list |
| 178014 Meslay | 1 September 2006 | list |
| 184318 Fosanelli | 2 April 2005 | list |
| (185309) 2006 UN$_{291}$ | 27 October 2006 | list |
| 196945 Guerin | 26 October 2003 | list |
| (197872) 2004 RK$_8$ | 6 September 2004 | list |
| (198897) 2005 UZ$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (198973) 2005 VO$_3$ | 6 November 2005 | list |
| (198974) 2005 VN$_4$ | 6 November 2005 | list |
| (199633) 2006 GF$_3$ | 7 April 2006 | list |
| 200020 Cadi Ayyad | 14 July 2007 | list |
| 214485 Dupouy | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (221175) 2005 UR$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (227337) 2005 UH$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (227749) 2006 HG$_{58}$ | 21 April 2006 | list |
| (229441) 2005 UJ$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (229504) 2005 WA$_4$ | 23 November 2005 | list |
| (236492) 2006 GG$_3$ | 7 April 2006 | list |
| (245552) 2005 UF$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (255072) 2005 UP$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (261214) 2005 UO$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (262587) 2006 VD$_{95}$ | 15 November 2006 | list |
| (277936) 2006 OO | 18 July 2006 | list |
| (280813) 2005 UQ$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (280879) 2005 WB$_4$ | 23 November 2005 | list |
| (281069) 2006 OO$_{10}$ | 25 July 2006 | list |
| (290773) 2005 VL$_3$ | 6 November 2005 | list |
| (290774) 2005 VM$_4$ | 6 November 2005 | list |
| (295790) 2008 UP$_{255}$ | 6 September 2004 | list |
| (308507) 2005 US$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (309208) 2007 HZ$_{14}$ | 22 April 2007 | list |
| (311402) 2005 UU$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (318903) 2005 UQ$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| 340579 Losse | 6 August 2006 | list |
| (354758) 2005 UB$_8$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| 355022 Triman | 31 August 2006 | list |
| 355029 Herve | 1 September 2006 | list |
| (358482) 2007 RL | 1 September 2007 | list |
| (360008) 2012 YR | 12 September 2007 | list |
| (363952) 2005 UE$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (367066) 2006 OP$_{10}$ | 25 July 2006 | list |
| (371386) 2006 RE | 1 September 2006 | list |
| (371568) 2006 VC$_{95}$ | 15 November 2006 | list |
| (376516) 2012 LH$_8$ | 9 August 2007 | list |
| (391057) 2005 UW$_7$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (397027) 2005 UM$_8$ | 27 October 2005 | list |
| (417130) 2005 VO$_4$ | 7 November 2005 | list |
| (440793) 2006 OK$_{10}$ | 25 July 2006 | list |
| (475017) 2005 UC$_8$ | 26 October 2005 | list |
| (475781) 2006 XU$_1$ | 10 December 2006 | list |