This category contains all institutional discoverers of minor planets, be it an observatory, survey or other program. Also see parent category:Discoverers of minor planets.

When a minor planet is numbered, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) also credits one or more astronomer or an observatory with the object's discovery. Sometimes these discoverers are individuals (by modern rules there can be no more than three co-discoverers), and sometimes the credit is given to an observatory, program or survey (see below). The MPC maintains a list of discoverers in alphabetical order and by number of discoveries.