The Minor Planet Bulletin

Not to be confused with the Minor Planet Circulars, published by Minor Planet Center.

The Minor Planet Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal. Its focus is on theoretical, observational, and historical information regarding the study of minor planets. The journal mainly targets amateur research, but it includes professional research as well. It has been published by the Minor Planets section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers since 1973^[1] and the editor-in-chief is Richard P. Binzel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

The Minor Planet Bulletin

Discipline	Astronomy
Language	English
Edited by	Richard P. Binzel
Publication details
History	1973–present
Publisher	Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Minor Planet Bull.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1052-8091
OCLC no.	643727637
Links
Journal homepage

Operations

All editorial, production, and distribution tasks are performed on a volunteer basis, many by amateur astronomers.^[2]

See also

• Astronomy portal
• Education portal
• Literature portal

• List of astronomy journals