Suzanne W. Tourtellotte (January 11, 1945 – June 20, 2013) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, a researcher at Yale University in the United States.

[3] From 1998, Tourtellote was the data manager at the Yale University department of astronomy for the YALO and SMARTS consortium.

[4] In 2003 together with David L. Rabinowitz, Brad and Martha Schaefer she studied the solar phase curves and rotation states of Kuiper belt objects.

In 2013; she worked on the La Silla Observatory Quest KBO survey [5] Tourtellote was faculty member at Albertus Magnus College until 2008.

[1] Tourtellotte is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the co-discovery of 15 numbered minor planets made at the Chilean La Silla Observatory in 2010, in collaboration with astronomers David L. Rabinowitz and Megan E.