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.
She won the 2013 Edgar Wilson Award for discovering three comets which were designated 373P/Rinner (P/2011 W2),[4] C/2012 CH17 (MOSS),[5] and 281P/MOSS (P/2013 CE31).
[1] The asteroid 23999 Rinner, discovered by French amateur astronomer Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in her honor.
[7] In 2020, she and Michel Ory jointly received the Dorothea Klumpke – Isaac Roberts prize from the Société astronomique de France.