Claudine Rinner (born 1965) is a French amateur astronomer from

Ottmarsheim Ottmarsheim (; gsw-FR, Ottmersche) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the river Rhine and on the A36 autoroute, 14 km east of Mulhouse. Its octagonal parish church was the church of the f ...

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, France. She is an observer at Ottmarsheim Observatory and a discoverer of

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s and

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s, who received the

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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 Oukaïmeden Observatory ( obs. code: J43) is an astronomical observatory located in the commune of Oukaïmden in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey is conducted to observe small Solar System bodies. Teles ...

located in Morocco. She won the 2013

for discovering three comets which were designated 373P/Rinner (P/2011 W2), (MOSS), and 281P/MOSS (). Rinner is also credited by the

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with the discovery of more than 100

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since 2004, including several co-discoveries with

François Kugel This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 nu ...

''(see list below)''.

Awards and honors

The asteroid 23999 Rinner, discovered by French amateur astronomer

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in 1999, was named in her honor. The official was published by the

on 21 July 2005 (). In 2020, she and

Michel Ory Michel Ory (born 18 April 1966) is a Swiss amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. Biography Ory was born in Develier, in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. He attended school i ...

jointly received the Dorothea Klumpke – Isaac Roberts prize from the

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.“Les distinctions de la Société astronomique de France”, Société astronomique de France, consulted on 6 December 2020.
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Discoveries

List of discovered minor planets

Some of Claudine Rinner's discoveries were made in collaboration with

References

External links

En bref : cocorico, enfin une comète française !

Le projet MOSS (2011-2018)

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