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                          112P    Urata-Niijima
   2P    Encke                           113P    Spitaler
   3D    Biela                           114P    Wiseman-Skiff
   4P    Faye                            115P    Maury
   5D    Brorsen                         116P    Wild
   6P    d'Arrest                        117P    Helin-Roman-Alu
   7P    Pons-Winnecke                   118P    Shoemaker-Levy
   8P    Tuttle                          119P    Parker-Hartley
   9P    Tempel                          120P    Mueller
  10P    Tempel                          121P    Shoemaker-Holt
  11P    Tempel-Swift-LINEAR             122P    de Vico
  12P    Pons-Brooks                     123P    West-Hartley
  13P    Olbers                          124P    Mrkos
  14P    Wolf                            125P    Spacewatch
  15P    Finlay                          126P    IRAS
  16P    Brooks                          127P    Holt-Olmstead
  17P    Holmes                          128P    Shoemaker-Holt
  18D    Perrine-Mrkos                   129P    Shoemaker-Levy
  19P    Borrelly                        130P    McNaught-Hughes
  20D    Westphal                        131P    Mueller
  21P    Giacobini-Zinner                132P    Helin-Roman-Alu
  22P    Kopff                           133P    Elst-Pizarro
  23P    Brorsen-Metcalf                 134P    Kowal-Vavrova
  24P    Schaumasse                      135P    Shoemaker-Levy
  25D    Neujmin                         136P    Mueller
  26P    Grigg-Skjellerup                137P    Shoemaker-Levy
  27P    Crommelin                       138P    Shoemaker-Levy
  28P    Neujmin                         139P    Vaisala-Oterma
  29P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            140P    Bowell-Skiff
  30P    Reinmuth                        141P    Machholz
  31P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            142P    Ge-Wang
  32P    Comas Sola                      143P    Kowal-Mrkos
  33P    Daniel                          144P    Kushida
  34D    Gale                            145P    Shoemaker-Levy
  35P    Herschel-Rigollet               146P    Shoemaker-LINEAR
  36P    Whipple                         147P    Kushida-Muramatsu
  37P    Forbes                          148P    Anderson-LINEAR
  38P    Stephan-Oterma                  149P    Mueller
  39P    Oterma                          150P    LONEOS
  40P    Vaisala                         151P    Helin
  41P    Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak         152P    Helin-Lawrence
  42P    Neujmin                         153P    Ikeya-Zhang
  43P    Wolf-Harrington                 154P    Brewington
  44P    Reinmuth                        155P    Shoemaker
  45P    Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova         156P    Russell-LINEAR
  46P    Wirtanen                        157P    Tritton
  47P    Ashbrook-Jackson                158P    Kowal-LINEAR
  48P    Johnson                         159P    LONEOS
  49P    Arend-Rigaux                    160P    LINEAR
  50P    Arend                           161P    Hartley-IRAS
  51P    Harrington                      162P    Siding Spring
  52P    Harrington-Abell                163P    NEAT
  53P    Van Biesbroeck                  164P    Christensen
  54P    de Vico-Swift-NEAT              165P    LINEAR
  55P    Tempel-Tuttle                   166P    NEAT
  56P    Slaughter-Burnham               167P    CINEOS
  57P    du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte        168P    Hergenrother
  58P    Jackson-Neujmin                 169P    NEAT
  59P    Kearns-Kwee                     170P    Christensen
  60P    Tsuchinshan                     171P    Spahr
  61P    Shajn-Schaldach                 172P    Yeung
  62P    Tsuchinshan                     173P    Mueller
  63P    Wild                            174P    Echeclus
  64P    Swift-Gehrels                   175P    Hergenrother
  65P    Gunn                            176P    LINEAR
  66P    du Toit                         177P    Barnard
  67P    Churyumov-Gerasimenko           178P    Hug-Bell
  68P    Klemola                         179P    Jedicke
  69P    Taylor                          180P    NEAT
  70P    Kojima                          181P    Shoemaker-Levy
  71P    Clark                           182P    LONEOS
  72D    Denning-Fujikawa                183P    Korlevic-Juric
  73P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            184P    Lovas
  74P    Smirnova-Chernykh               185P    Petriew
  75D    Kohoutek                        186P    Garradd
  76P    West-Kohoutek-Ikemura           187P    LINEAR
  77P    Longmore                        188P    LINEAR-Mueller
  78P    Gehrels                         189P    NEAT
  79P    du Toit-Hartley                 190P    Mueller
  80P    Peters-Hartley                  191P    McNaught
  81P    Wild                            192P    Shoemaker-Levy
  82P    Gehrels                         193P    LINEAR-NEAT
  83D    Russell                         194P    LINEAR
  84P    Giclas                          195P    Hill
  85P    Boethin                         196P    Tichy
  86P    Wild                            197P    LINEAR
  87P    Bus                             198P    ODAS
  88P    Howell                          199P    Shoemaker
  89P    Russell                         200P    Larsen
  90P    Gehrels                         201P    LONEOS
  91P    Russell                         202P    Scotti
  92P    Sanguin                         203P    Korlevic
  93P    Lovas                           204P    LINEAR-NEAT
  94P    Russell                         205P    Giacobini
  95P    Chiron                          206P    Barnard-Boattini
  96P    Machholz                        207P    NEAT
  97P    Metcalf-Brewington              208P    McMillan
  98P    Takamizawa                      209P    LINEAR
  99P    Kowal                           210P    Christensen
 100P    Hartley                         211P    Hill
 101P    Chernykh                        212P    NEAT
 102P    Shoemaker                       213P    Van Ness
 103P    Hartley                         214P    LINEAR
 104P    Kowal                           215P    NEAT
 105P    Singer Brewster                 216P    LINEAR
 106P    Schuster                        217P    LINEAR
 107P    Wilson-Harrington               218P    LINEAR
 108P    Ciffreo                         219P    LINEAR
 109P    Swift-Tuttle                    220P    McNaught
 110P    Hartley                         221P    LINEAR
 111P    Helin-Roman-Crockett
See this list in name order.

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


This list was last updated on 2009 June 6.


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