The Daily Minor Planet


The Daily Minor Planet is a citizen science project run by the Zooniverse and The Catalina Sky Survey with a funding grant from NASA, to use citizen science volunteer classifications to discover asteroids with recent data from the G96 Mount Lemmon Survey 1.52 m cassegrain reflector telescope. The main objective of the project is to search for undiscovered asteroids in order to protect the planet by locating potentially harmful Near-Earth asteroids.
The main-belt asteroid 227711 Dailyminorplanet was named in honor of thousands of volunteers who have participated in this project.

List of Notable Discoveries

Asteroid DesignationOrbit or FamilySemi-
major
axis 		Eccentricity
of orbit		Diameter
Discovery
date		Refs
2023 VN3Apollo1.21662790.214218026.172023-11-05
2023 TWAten0.84588860.29125859.302023-10-04
2024 SN3Aten0.91500810.109630311.022024-09-22
2025 HD3Aten0.83165990.444624923.782025-04-24
2025 KU1Apollo1.07383960.081099115.102025-05-22