Periodic Comet Numbers (Alphabetic List by Name)

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