Periodic Comet Numbers

The assignment of periodic comet numbers is the responsibility of the Minor Planet Center. The current list of numbers is as follows:
Number   Name                           Number   Name
 
   1P    Halley                          100P    Hartley
   2P    Encke                           101P    Chernykh
   3D    Biela                           102P    Shoemaker
   4P    Faye                            103P    Hartley
   5D    Brorsen                         104P    Kowal
   6P    d'Arrest                        105P    Singer Brewster
   7P    Pons-Winnecke                   106P    Schuster
   8P    Tuttle                          107P    Wilson-Harrington
   9P    Tempel                          108P    Ciffreo
  10P    Tempel                          109P    Swift-Tuttle
  11P    Tempel-Swift-LINEAR             110P    Hartley
  12P    Pons-Brooks                     111P    Helin-Roman-Crockett
  13P    Olbers                          112P    Urata-Niijima
  14P    Wolf                            113P    Spitaler
  15P    Finlay                          114P    Wiseman-Skiff
  16P    Brooks                          115P    Maury
  17P    Holmes                          116P    Wild
  18D    Perrine-Mrkos                   117P    Helin-Roman-Alu
  19P    Borrelly                        118P    Shoemaker-Levy
  20D    Westphal                        119P    Parker-Hartley
  21P    Giacobini-Zinner                120P    Mueller
  22P    Kopff                           121P    Shoemaker-Holt
  23P    Brorsen-Metcalf                 122P    de Vico
  24P    Schaumasse                      123P    West-Hartley
  25D    Neujmin                         124P    Mrkos
  26P    Grigg-Skjellerup                125P    Spacewatch
  27P    Crommelin                       126P    IRAS
  28P    Neujmin                         127P    Holt-Olmstead
  29P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            128P    Shoemaker-Holt
  30P    Reinmuth                        129P    Shoemaker-Levy
  31P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            130P    McNaught-Hughes
  32P    Comas Sola                      131P    Mueller
  33P    Daniel                          132P    Helin-Roman-Alu
  34D    Gale                            133P    Elst-Pizarro
  35P    Herschel-Rigollet               134P    Kowal-Vavrova
  36P    Whipple                         135P    Shoemaker-Levy
  37P    Forbes                          136P    Mueller
  38P    Stephan-Oterma                  137P    Shoemaker-Levy
  39P    Oterma                          138P    Shoemaker-Levy
  40P    Vaisala                         139P    Vaisala-Oterma
  41P    Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak         140P    Bowell-Skiff
  42P    Neujmin                         141P    Machholz
  43P    Wolf-Harrington                 142P    Ge-Wang
  44P    Reinmuth                        143P    Kowal-Mrkos
  45P    Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova         144P    Kushida
  46P    Wirtanen                        145P    Shoemaker-Levy
  47P    Ashbrook-Jackson                146P    Shoemaker-LINEAR
  48P    Johnson                         147P    Kushida-Muramatsu
  49P    Arend-Rigaux                    148P    Anderson-LINEAR
  50P    Arend                           149P    Mueller
  51P    Harrington                      150P    LONEOS
  52P    Harrington-Abell                151P    Helin
  53P    Van Biesbroeck                  152P    Helin-Lawrence
  54P    de Vico-Swift-NEAT              153P    Ikeya-Zhang
  55P    Tempel-Tuttle                   154P    Brewington
  56P    Slaughter-Burnham               155P    Shoemaker
  57P    du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte        156P    Russell-LINEAR
  58P    Jackson-Neujmin                 157P    Tritton
  59P    Kearns-Kwee                     158P    Kowal-LINEAR
  60P    Tsuchinshan                     159P    LONEOS
  61P    Shajn-Schaldach                 160P    LINEAR
  62P    Tsuchinshan                     161P    Hartley-IRAS
  63P    Wild                            162P    Siding Spring
  64P    Swift-Gehrels                   163P    NEAT
  65P    Gunn                            164P    Christensen
  66P    du Toit                         165P    LINEAR
  67P    Churyumov-Gerasimenko           166P    NEAT
  68P    Klemola                         167P    CINEOS
  69P    Taylor                          168P    Hergenrother
  70P    Kojima                          169P    NEAT
  71P    Clark                           170P    Christensen
  72P    Denning-Fujikawa                171P    Spahr
  73P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            172P    Yeung
  74P    Smirnova-Chernykh               173P    Mueller
  75D    Kohoutek                        174P    Echeclus
  76P    West-Kohoutek-Ikemura           175P    Hergenrother
  77P    Longmore                        176P    LINEAR
  78P    Gehrels                         177P    Barnard
  79P    du Toit-Hartley                 178P    Hug-Bell
  80P    Peters-Hartley                  179P    Jedicke
  81P    Wild                            180P    NEAT
  82P    Gehrels                         181P    Shoemaker-Levy
  83P    Russell                         182P    LONEOS
  84P    Giclas                          183P    Korlevic-Juric
  85P    Boethin                         184P    Lovas
  86P    Wild                            185P    Petriew
  87P    Bus                             186P    Garradd
  88P    Howell                          187P    LINEAR
  89P    Russell                         188P    LINEAR-Mueller
  90P    Gehrels                         189P    NEAT
  91P    Russell                         190P    Mueller
  92P    Sanguin                         191P    McNaught
  93P    Lovas                           192P    Shoemaker-Levy
  94P    Russell                         193P    LINEAR-NEAT
  95P    Chiron                          194P    LINEAR
  96P    Machholz                        195P    Hill
  97P    Metcalf-Brewington              196P    Tichy
  98P    Takamizawa                      197P    LINEAR
  99P    Kowal                           198P    ODAS
See this list in name order.

Additions to this list will appear in the Minor Planet Circulars.


This list was last updated on 2008 Apr. 21.


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