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                 201P    LONEOS
  50P    Arend                           159P    LONEOS
  49P    Arend-Rigaux                     77P    Longmore
  47P    Ashbrook-Jackson                 93P    Lovas
 177P    Barnard                         184P    Lovas
 206P    Barnard-Boattini                 96P    Machholz
   3D    Biela                           141P    Machholz
  85P    Boethin                         115P    Maury
  19P    Borrelly                        208P    McMillan
 140P    Bowell-Skiff                    220P    McNaught
 154P    Brewington                      191P    McNaught
  16P    Brooks                          130P    McNaught-Hughes
   5D    Brorsen                          97P    Metcalf-Brewington
  23P    Brorsen-Metcalf                 124P    Mrkos
  87P    Bus                             149P    Mueller
 101P    Chernykh                        190P    Mueller
  95P    Chiron                          120P    Mueller
 164P    Christensen                     136P    Mueller
 170P    Christensen                     173P    Mueller
 210P    Christensen                     131P    Mueller
  67P    Churyumov-Gerasimenko           180P    NEAT
 108P    Ciffreo                         215P    NEAT
 167P    CINEOS                          207P    NEAT
  71P    Clark                           169P    NEAT
  32P    Comas Sola                      163P    NEAT
  27P    Crommelin                       189P    NEAT
   6P    d'Arrest                        166P    NEAT
  33P    Daniel                          212P    NEAT
 122P    de Vico                          42P    Neujmin
  54P    de Vico-Swift-NEAT               28P    Neujmin
  72D    Denning-Fujikawa                 25D    Neujmin
  66P    du Toit                         198P    ODAS
  79P    du Toit-Hartley                  13P    Olbers
  57P    du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte         39P    Oterma
 174P    Echeclus                        119P    Parker-Hartley
 133P    Elst-Pizarro                     18D    Perrine-Mrkos
   2P    Encke                            80P    Peters-Hartley
   4P    Faye                            185P    Petriew
  15P    Finlay                           12P    Pons-Brooks
  37P    Forbes                            7P    Pons-Winnecke
  34D    Gale                             44P    Reinmuth
 186P    Garradd                          30P    Reinmuth
 142P    Ge-Wang                          91P    Russell
  90P    Gehrels                          89P    Russell
  78P    Gehrels                          94P    Russell
  82P    Gehrels                          83D    Russell
 205P    Giacobini                       156P    Russell-LINEAR
  21P    Giacobini-Zinner                 92P    Sanguin
  84P    Giclas                           24P    Schaumasse
  26P    Grigg-Skjellerup                106P    Schuster
  65P    Gunn                             31P    Schwassmann-Wachmann
   1P    Halley                           73P    Schwassmann-Wachmann
  51P    Harrington                       29P    Schwassmann-Wachmann
  52P    Harrington-Abell                202P    Scotti
 103P    Hartley                          61P    Shajn-Schaldach
 100P    Hartley                         102P    Shoemaker
 110P    Hartley                         155P    Shoemaker
 161P    Hartley-IRAS                    199P    Shoemaker
 151P    Helin                           121P    Shoemaker-Holt
 152P    Helin-Lawrence                  128P    Shoemaker-Holt
 132P    Helin-Roman-Alu                 181P    Shoemaker-Levy
 117P    Helin-Roman-Alu                 118P    Shoemaker-Levy
 111P    Helin-Roman-Crockett            135P    Shoemaker-Levy
 175P    Hergenrother                    129P    Shoemaker-Levy
 168P    Hergenrother                    192P    Shoemaker-Levy
  35P    Herschel-Rigollet               137P    Shoemaker-Levy
 195P    Hill                            138P    Shoemaker-Levy
 211P    Hill                            145P    Shoemaker-Levy
  17P    Holmes                          146P    Shoemaker-LINEAR
 127P    Holt-Olmstead                   162P    Siding Spring
  45P    Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova         105P    Singer Brewster
  88P    Howell                           56P    Slaughter-Burnham
 178P    Hug-Bell                         74P    Smirnova-Chernykh
 153P    Ikeya-Zhang                     125P    Spacewatch
 126P    IRAS                            171P    Spahr
  58P    Jackson-Neujmin                 113P    Spitaler
 179P    Jedicke                          38P    Stephan-Oterma
  48P    Johnson                          64P    Swift-Gehrels
  59P    Kearns-Kwee                     109P    Swift-Tuttle
  68P    Klemola                          98P    Takamizawa
  75D    Kohoutek                         69P    Taylor
  70P    Kojima                           10P    Tempel
  22P    Kopff                             9P    Tempel
 203P    Korlevic                         11P    Tempel-Swift-LINEAR
 183P    Korlevic-Juric                   55P    Tempel-Tuttle
  99P    Kowal                           196P    Tichy
 104P    Kowal                           157P    Tritton
 158P    Kowal-LINEAR                     62P    Tsuchinshan
 143P    Kowal-Mrkos                      60P    Tsuchinshan
 134P    Kowal-Vavrova                     8P    Tuttle
 144P    Kushida                          41P    Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
 147P    Kushida-Muramatsu               112P    Urata-Niijima
 200P    Larsen                           40P    Vaisala
 165P    LINEAR                          139P    Vaisala-Oterma
 160P    LINEAR                           53P    Van Biesbroeck
 187P    LINEAR                          213P    Van Ness
 194P    LINEAR                          123P    West-Hartley
 209P    LINEAR                           76P    West-Kohoutek-Ikemura
 176P    LINEAR                           20D    Westphal
 197P    LINEAR                           36P    Whipple
 214P    LINEAR                           63P    Wild
 216P    LINEAR                           81P    Wild
 217P    LINEAR                           86P    Wild
 218P    LINEAR                          116P    Wild
 219P    LINEAR                          107P    Wilson-Harrington
 221P    LINEAR                           46P    Wirtanen
 188P    LINEAR-Mueller                  114P    Wiseman-Skiff
 204P    LINEAR-NEAT                      14P    Wolf
 193P    LINEAR-NEAT                      43P    Wolf-Harrington
 150P    LONEOS                          172P    Yeung
 182P    LONEOS
See this list in numerical 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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