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 CH17 (MOSS), and 281P/MOSS (P/2013 CE31). 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
See also
- List of minor planet discoverers § C. Rinner
References
External links
- En bref : cocorico, enfin une comète française ! Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- Le projet MOSS (2011-2018), Michel Ory
