+ Minor planets discovered: 119 see

The Indiana Asteroid Program was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949–1967, at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana.Indiana University Department of Astronomy: Frank Edmondson Home Page The program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University using a 10-inch f/6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera.Asteroids II Machine-Readable Data Base - Version March 1988, Binzel, R.P. et al., eds. 1989, Univ. of Arizona Press, Note 103: "Planets discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program, Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana University. This program was conceived and directed by F. K. Edmondson; the plates were blinked and measured astrometrically by B. Potter and, following her retirement, by D. Owings, and the photometry was performed under the direction of T. Gehrels. During the years 1947-1967, in which the plates were exposed, a large number of people participated in various aspects of the program."

Its objectives included recovering asteroids that were far from their predicted positions, making new orbital calculations or revising old ones, deriving magnitudes accurate to about 0.1 mag, and training students.

When the observatory's 36-inch (0.91-meter) reflecting telescope proved unsuitable for searching for asteroids, postdoctoral fellow James Cuffey arranged the permanent loan of a 10-inch (25-centimeter) lens from the University of Cincinnati.Ken Kingery, Betting on a Sure Thing: A "Record" Ending to Indiana Asteroid Program, Indiana Alumni Magazine, v.1, no. 2, September/October 2008, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Alumni Association, p. 46; See also, Space Daily. Mounted in a shed near the main observatory, the instrument using the borrowed lens was responsible for all of the program's discoveries.Id.

By 1958, the program had produced 3,500 photographic plates showing 12,000 asteroid images and had published about 2,000 accurate positions in the Minor Planet Circular. When the program ended in 1967, it had discovered a total of 119 asteroids. The program's highest numbered discovery, 30718 Records, made in 1955, was not named until November 2007 ().

The program ended when the lights of the nearby city of Indianapolis became too bright to permit the long exposures required for the photographic plates.Kingery, p. 47. The program's nearly 7,000 photographic plates are now archived at Lowell Observatory.Kingery, p. 47, and Indiana University Department of Astronomy: Frank Edmondson Home Page

List of discovered minor planets

The Indiana Asteroid Program has discovered 119 asteroids during 1949–1966. The Minor Planet Center officially credits these discoveries to "Indiana University" rather than to the program itself.

1575 Winifred 20 April 1950 1578 Kirkwood 10 January 1951 1602 Indiana 14 March 1950 1615 Bardwell 28 January 1950 1721 Wells 3 October 1953 1728 Goethe Link 12 October 1964 1729 Beryl 19 September 1963 1741 Giclas 26 January 1960 1746 Brouwer 14 September 1963 1751 Herget 27 July 1955 1761 Edmondson 30 March 1952 1762 Russell 8 October 1953 1763 Williams 13 October 1953 1764 Cogshall 7 November 1953 1765 Wrubel 15 December 1957 1766 Slipher 7 September 1962 1767 Lampland 7 September 1962 1788 Kiess 25 July 1952 1798 Watts 4 April 1949 1799 Koussevitzky 25 July 1950 1822 Waterman 25 July 1950 1824 Haworth 30 March 1952 1826 Miller 14 September 1955 1827 Atkinson 7 September 1962 1852 Carpenter 1 April 1955 1853 McElroy 15 December 1957 1952 Hesburgh 3 May 1951 1953 Rupertwildt 29 October 1951 1955 McMath 22 September 1963 1971 Hagihara 14 September 1955 1988 Delores 28 September 1952 1994 Shane 4 October 1961 1996 Adams 16 October 1961 1997 Leverrier 14 September 1963 2007 McCuskey 22 September 1963 2023 Asaph 16 September 1952 2024 McLaughlin 23 October 1952 2026 Cottrell 30 March 1955 2059 Baboquivari 16 October 1963 2065 Spicer 9 September 1959 2069 Hubble 29 March 1955 2070 Humason 14 October 1964 2086 Newell 20 January 1966 2110 Moore-Sitterly 7 September 1962 2160 Spitzer 7 September 1956 2161 Grissom 17 October 1963 2165 Young 7 September 1956 2168 Swope 14 September 1955 2182 Semirot 21 March 1953 2196 Ellicott 29 January 1965 2227 Otto Struve 13 September 1955 2300 Stebbins 10 October 1953 2301 Whitford 20 November 1965 2322 Kitt Peak 28 October 1954 2326 Tololo 29 August 1965 2334 Cuffey 27 April 1962 2351 O'Higgins 3 November 1964 2405 Welch 18 October 1963 2417 McVittie 15 February 1964 2466 Golson 7 September 1959 2488 Bryan 23 October 1952 2496 Fernandus 8 October 1953 2516 Roman 6 November 1964 2528 Mohler 8 October 1953 2624 Samitchell 7 September 1962 2641 Lipschutz 4 April 1949 2653 Principia 4 November 1964 2751 Campbell 7 September 1962 2753 Duncan 18 February 1966 2775 Odishaw 14 October 1953 2842 Unsold 25 July 1950 2848 ASP 8 November 1959 2853 Harvill 14 September 1963 2974 Holden 23 August 1955 2996 Bowman 5 September 1954 3070 Aitken 4 April 1949 3145 Walter Adams 14 September 1955 3167 Babcock 13 September 1955 3180 Morgan 7 September 1962 3185 Clintford 11 November 1953 3282 Spencer Jones 19 February 1949 3363 Bowen 6 March 1960 3371 Giacconi 14 September 1955 3428 Roberts 1 May 1952 3433 Fehrenbach 15 October 1963 3447 Burckhalter 29 September 1956 3474 Linsley 27 April 1962 3520 Klopsteg 16 September 1952 3572 Leogoldberg 28 October 1954 3654 AAS 21 August 1949 3717 Thorenia 15 February 1964 3882 Johncox 7 September 1962 3959 Irwin 28 October 1954 3961 Arthurcox 31 July 1962 4045 Lowengrub 9 September 1953 4046 Swain 7 October 1953 4048 Samwestfall 30 October 1964 4299 WIYN 28 August 1952 4300 Marg Edmondson 18 September 1955 4388 Jurgenstock 3 November 1964 4423 Golden 4 April 1949 4463 Marschwarzschild 28 October 1954 4911 Rosenzweig 16 October 1953 4912 Emilhaury 11 November 1953 5074 Goetzoertel 24 August 1949 5536 Honeycutt 23 August 1955 5567 Durisen 21 March 1953 5568 Mufson 14 October 1953 7001 Noether 14 March 1955 7368 Haldancohn 20 January 1966 7723 Lugger 28 August 1952 8059 Deliyannis 6 May 1957 8320 van Zee 13 September 1955 9143 Burkhead 16 September 1955 9144 Hollisjohnson 25 October 1955 9260 Edwardolson 8 October 1953 9261 Peggythomson 8 October 1953 19912 Aurapenenta 14 September 1955 30718 Records 14 September 1955

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