List of periodic comets
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Periodic comets are comet
s having orbital periods of less than 200 years (also known as "short-period comets") or which have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya-Zhang
). ("Periodic comet" is also sometimes used to mean any comet with a periodic orbit, even if greater than 200 years.)
Periodic comets receive a permanent number prefix usually after the second perihelion passage, which is why there are a number of unnumbered periodic comets, such as P/2005 T5 (Broughton).
In nearly all cases, comets are named after their discoverer(s), but in a few cases such as 2P/Encke and 27P/Crommelin
they were named for a person who calculated their orbits (the orbit computers). The long-term orbits of comets are difficult to calculate because of errors in the known trajectory that accumulate with perturbations
from the planets, and in the days before electronic computers some people dedicated their entire careers to this. Even so, quite a few comets were lost because their orbits are also affected by non-gravitational effects such as the release of gas and other material that forms the comet's coma
and tail. Unlike a long-period comet, the next perihelion
passage of a numbered periodic comet can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy.
Periodic comets sometimes bear the same name repeatedly (e.g. the nine Shoemaker-Levy comets or the twenty-four NEAT
comets); the IAU system distinguishes between them either through the number prefix or by the full designation (e. g. 181P and 192P are both "Comet Shoemaker-Levy"). In the literature, an informal numbering system is applied to periodic comets (skipping the non-periodic ones), thus 181P and 192P are known as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6 and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1, respectively. Non-periodic Shoemaker-Levy comets are interleaved in this sequence: C/1991 B1 between 2 and 3, C/1991 T2 between 5 and 6, C/1993 K1 and C/1994 E2 after Shoemaker-Levy 9.
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated —usually historical comets), or "A" for an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a minor planet
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Some lists retain the "C" prefix for comets of periods larger than about 30 years until their return is confirmed.
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s having orbital periods of less than 200 years (also known as "short-period comets") or which have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya-Zhang
153P/Ikeya-Zhang
Comet Ikeya-Zhang is a comet discovered independently by two astronomers from Japan and China in 2002....
). ("Periodic comet" is also sometimes used to mean any comet with a periodic orbit, even if greater than 200 years.)
Periodic comets receive a permanent number prefix usually after the second perihelion passage, which is why there are a number of unnumbered periodic comets, such as P/2005 T5 (Broughton).
In nearly all cases, comets are named after their discoverer(s), but in a few cases such as 2P/Encke and 27P/Crommelin
27P/Crommelin
Comet Crommelin, also known as Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes, is a periodic comet in the solar system named after the British astronomer Andrew C. D. Crommelin who calculated its orbit in 1930...
they were named for a person who calculated their orbits (the orbit computers). The long-term orbits of comets are difficult to calculate because of errors in the known trajectory that accumulate with perturbations
Perturbation (astronomy)
Perturbation is a term used in astronomy in connection with descriptions of the complex motion of a massive body which is subject to appreciable gravitational effects from more than one other massive body....
from the planets, and in the days before electronic computers some people dedicated their entire careers to this. Even so, quite a few comets were lost because their orbits are also affected by non-gravitational effects such as the release of gas and other material that forms the comet's coma
Coma (cometary)
frame|right|The [[153P/Ikeya-Zhang|comet Ikeya-Zhang]] exhibiting a bright, condensed coma In astronomy, a coma is the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet. It is formed when the comet passes close to the Sun on its highly elliptical orbit; as the comet warms, parts of it sublimate...
and tail. Unlike a long-period comet, the next perihelion
Apsis
An apsis , plural apsides , is the point of greatest or least distance of a body from one of the foci of its elliptical orbit. In modern celestial mechanics this focus is also the center of attraction, which is usually the center of mass of the system...
passage of a numbered periodic comet can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy.
Periodic comets sometimes bear the same name repeatedly (e.g. the nine Shoemaker-Levy comets or the twenty-four NEAT
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:...
comets); the IAU system distinguishes between them either through the number prefix or by the full designation (e. g. 181P and 192P are both "Comet Shoemaker-Levy"). In the literature, an informal numbering system is applied to periodic comets (skipping the non-periodic ones), thus 181P and 192P are known as Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6 and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1, respectively. Non-periodic Shoemaker-Levy comets are interleaved in this sequence: C/1991 B1 between 2 and 3, C/1991 T2 between 5 and 6, C/1993 K1 and C/1994 E2 after Shoemaker-Levy 9.
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated —usually historical comets), or "A" for an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a minor planet
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
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Some lists retain the "C" prefix for comets of periods larger than about 30 years until their return is confirmed.
Numbered periodic comets
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| 1P/Halley | Halley Edmond Halley Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley... |
Giotto Giotto mission Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet. On 13 March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometers.... (flyby 1986), Vega 1 Vega program The Vega program was a series of Venus missions which also took advantage of the appearance of Comet Halley in 1986. Vega 1 and Vega 2 were unmanned spacecraft launched in a cooperative effort among the Soviet Union and Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Poland,... (flyby 1986), Vega 2 (flyby 1986), ICE International Cometary Explorer The International Cometary Explorer spacecraft was originally known as International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 satellite, launched August 12, 1978. It was part of the ISEE international cooperative program between NASA and ESRO/ESA to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and the... (distant flyby 1986), Sakigake Sakigake Sakigake , pre-launch codename MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft, and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the USA or the Soviet Union... (distant flyby 1986) |
| 2P/Encke | Encke Johann Franz Encke Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn.-Biography:Encke was born in Hamburg, where his father was a... |
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| 3D/Biela 3D/Biela Biela's Comet or Comet Biela was a periodic comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It was subsequently observed to split in two and has not been seen since 1852... |
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| 4P/Faye 4P/Faye 4P/Faye is a periodic comet discovered in November, 1843, by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris.... |
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| 5D/Brorsen 5D/Brorsen 5D/Brorsen is a comet discovered February 26, 1846, by the Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen.... |
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| 6P/d'Arrest 6P/d'Arrest 6P/d'Arrest is a periodic comet in our Solar System, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. It passed 53 Gm from the Earth, about a third of the Earth-Sun distance, on August 9, 2008.... |
d'Arrest Heinrich Louis d'Arrest Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a German astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest.... |
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| 7P/Pons–Winnecke | Pons Jean-Louis Pons Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer.Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.- Early life :Pons was born at Peyre,... & Winnecke Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke was a German astronomer.He worked at Pulkovo Observatory from 1858 to 1865, but returned to Germany and served as professor of astronomy at Strasbourg from 1872 to 1881.He discovered or co-discovered a large number of comets, including the periodic comet... |
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| 8P/Tuttle 8P/Tuttle 8P/Tuttle is a periodic comet in our solar system. Perihelion was late January 2008, and as of February was visible telescopically to Southern Hemisphere observers in the constellation Eridanus. On December 30, 2007 it was in close conjunction with spiral galaxy M33... |
Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle .... |
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| 9P/Tempel 9P/Tempel Tempel 1 , is a periodic comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It currently completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a deliberate high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005... (Tempel 1) |
Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy.... |
Deep Impact (impacter/flyby 2005), Stardust Stardust (spacecraft) Stardust is a 300-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on February 7, 1999 to study the asteroid 5535 Annefrank and collect samples from the coma of comet Wild 2. The primary mission was completed January 15, 2006, when the sample return capsule returned to Earth... (flyby 2011) |
| 10P/Tempel 10P/Tempel 10P/Tempel, also known as Tempel 2, is a periodic comet in our solar system.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 10.6 kilometers in diameter with a low albedo of 0.022.... (Tempel 2) |
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| 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR | Tempel & Swift Lewis A. Swift Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle... & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 12P/Pons–Brooks | Pons Jean-Louis Pons Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer.Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.- Early life :Pons was born at Peyre,... & Brooks William Robert Brooks William Robert Brooks was a British-born American astronomer, mainly noted as being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons... |
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| 13P/Olbers 13P/Olbers 13P/Olbers is a periodic comet in our solar system.Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered the comet on March 6, 1815. Its orbit was first computed by Carl Friedrich Gauss on March 31, Friedrich Bessel calculated an orbital period as 73 a, later as 73.9 a, calculations by other astronomers... |
Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers was a German physician and astronomer.-Life and career:Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing medicine in Bremen, Germany... |
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| 14P/Wolf 14P/Wolf 14P/Wolf is a periodic comet in our solar system.Max Wolf discovered the comet on September 17, 1884. It was later discovered, but not credited to, Ralph Copeland on September 23.... |
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| 15P/Finlay 15P/Finlay Comet Finlay is a periodic comet in our solar system discovered by William Henry Finlay on September 26, 1886.... |
Finlay William Henry Finlay William Henry Finlay was a South African astronomer. He was First Assistant at the Cape Observatory from 1873 to 1898. He discovered the periodic comet 15P/Finlay... |
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| 16P/Brooks 16P/Brooks 16P/Brooks, also known as Brooks 2, is a periodic comet discovered by William Robert Brooks on July 7, 1889, but failed to note any motion. He was able to confirm the discovery the next morning, having seen that the comet had moved north... (Brooks 2) |
Brooks William Robert Brooks William Robert Brooks was a British-born American astronomer, mainly noted as being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons... |
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| 17P/Holmes 17P/Holmes Comet Holmes is a periodic comet in our solar system, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892... |
Holmes Edwin Holmes Edwin Holmes was an English amateur astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 17P/Holmes on November 6, 1892, and his discovery was confirmed within days at the Royal Observatory Greenwich... |
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| 18D/Perrine–Mrkos | Perrine Charles Dillon Perrine Charles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer living in Argentina.Born in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of Peter and Elizabeth McCauley Perrine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "The Huguenot", he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National... & Mrkos Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia... |
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| 19P/Borrelly 19P/Borrelly Comet Borrelly or Borrelly's Comet is a periodic comet, which was visited by the spacecraft Deep Space 1 in 2001.- Discovery :... |
Borrelly Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly was a French astronomer.Working in Marseille, he discovered asteroids and comets.He discovered the periodic comet 19P/Borrelly.The asteroid 1539 Borrelly was named in his honour.... Deep Space 1 Deep Space 1 Deep Space 1 is a spacecraft of the NASA New Millennium Program dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high risk technologies.... (2001) |
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| 20D/Westphal 20D/Westphal 20D/Westphal is a periodic comet in our solar system, originally discovered by the German astronomer J. G. Westphal on July 24, 1852.... |
Westphal J. G. Westphal Justus Georg Westphal was a German astronomer and mathematician.Westphal is not to be confused with Johann Heinrich Westphal . Within the NASA Astrophysics Data System he also appears to be confused with a third Westphal, "Alfred Friedrich Julius Westphal" Justus Georg Westphal (1824-1859) was a... |
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| 21P/Giacobini–Zinner | Giacobini Michel Giacobini Michel Giacobini was a French astronomer.He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner , 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini... & Zinner Ernst Zinner Ernst Zinner was a German astronomer and noted historian of astronomy. After studies in Munich and Jena he obtained his PhD in 1907 at the University of Jena, followed by stays at the University of Lund, the University of Paris, and the Königstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg... |
ICE International Cometary Explorer The International Cometary Explorer spacecraft was originally known as International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 satellite, launched August 12, 1978. It was part of the ISEE international cooperative program between NASA and ESRO/ESA to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and the... (distant flyby 1985) |
| 22P/Kopff 22P/Kopff Comet Kopff or 22P/Kopff is a periodic comet in our solar system. Discovered on August 23, 1906, it was named after August Kopff who discovered the comet. The comet was missed on its November 1912 return, but was recovered on its June 1919 return. The comet has not been missed since its 1919 return... |
Kopff August Kopff August Kopff was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids. He worked in Heidelberg, then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation.He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff and the... |
CRAF Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to send a spacecraft to encounter an asteroid, and then to rendezvous with a comet and fly alongside it... (rendezvous/lander 2000 – cancelled) |
| 23P/Brorsen–Metcalf | Brorsen & Metcalf Joel Hastings Metcalf Joel Hastings Metcalf was an American astronomer.Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.He discovered or co-discovered several comets,... |
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| 24P/Schaumasse 24P/Schaumasse Comet Schaumasse is a periodic comet discovered by Alexandre Schaumasse on December 1, 1911 as 12th magnitude.By the end of 1912 it was recognised as a short period comet estimated to return in 7.1 years, later recalculated as 8 years... |
Schaumasse Alexandre Schaumasse Alexandre Schaumasse was a French astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 24P/Schaumasse. He also discovered two non-periodic comets: C/1913 J1 or 1913 II; and C/1917 H1 or 1917 II.... |
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| 25D/Neujmin 25D/Neujmin Comet 25D/Neujmin, otherwise known as Comet Neujmin 2, is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by Grigory N. Neujmin on February 24, 1916.... (Neujmin 2) |
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| 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup | Grigg John Grigg (astronomer) John Grigg was a New Zealand astronomer.He was born in London and married Emma Mitchell in 1858. In 1863 they emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Auckland, however Emma died in 1867. Grigg then moved to the town of Thames.He married his second wife Sarah Allaway in 1871 but she died in 1874... & Skjellerup John Francis Skjellerup John Francis Skjellerup was an Australian who spent about a decade working as a telegraphist in South Africa, and was an astronomer.... |
Giotto Giotto mission Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet. On 13 March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometers.... (flyby 1992) |
| 27P/Crommelin 27P/Crommelin Comet Crommelin, also known as Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes, is a periodic comet in the solar system named after the British astronomer Andrew C. D. Crommelin who calculated its orbit in 1930... |
Crommelin Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin was a Irish-born, British astronomer of Huguenot descent. He was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, and educated in England at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and went on several solar eclipse... |
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| 28P/Neujmin 28P/Neujmin 28P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 1, is a large periodic comet in our Solar System. With a perihelion distance of 1.5AU, this comet does not make close approaches to the Earth.... (Neujmin 1) |
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| 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann (Schwassmann–Wachmann 1) | Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann was a German astronomer.He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 .... & Wachmann Arno Arthur Wachmann Arthur Arno Wachmann was a German astronomer.With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann.... |
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| 30P/Reinmuth 30P/Reinmuth Comet 30P/Reinmuth, also known as Comet Reinmuth 1, is a periodic comet in the solar system, first discovered by Karl Reinmuth on February 22, 1928.... (Reinmuth 1) |
Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer.He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids , beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany from 1912 to 1957.His most notable... |
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| 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann (Schwassmann–Wachmann 2) | Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann was a German astronomer.He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 .... & Wachmann Arno Arthur Wachmann Arthur Arno Wachmann was a German astronomer.With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann.... |
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| 32P/Comas Solá 32P/Comas Solá 32P/Comas Solà is the name of a periodic comet with a current orbital period of 8.8 years.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 8.4 kilometers in diameter.-Discovery:... |
Comas Solá Josep Comas Solá Josep Comas i Solà was a Catalan Spanish astronomer.He observed planets including Mars and Saturn, measuring the period of rotation of the latter... |
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| 33P/Daniel 33P/Daniel Comet Daniel is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by Zaccheus Daniel on December 7, 1909 estimated as magnitude 9.... |
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| 34D/Gale 34D/Gale Comet Gale is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Walter Frederick Gale on June 7, 1927.The second apparition was calculated for 1938, but Gale failed to find it, however, it was recalculated by Leland E... |
Gale Walter Frederick Gale Walter Frederick Gale was an Australian banker. Gale was born in Paddington, Sydney. He had a strong interest in astronomy and built his first telescope in 1884.... |
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| 35P/Herschel–Rigollet | Herschel & Rigollet | |
| 36P/Whipple 36P/Whipple 36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in our solar system.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.5 kilometers in diameter.-External links:* from JPL / ** – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net... |
Whipple Fred Lawrence Whipple Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years... |
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| 37P/Forbes 37P/Forbes 37P/Forbes is a periodic comet in our solar system.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 1.9 kilometers in diameter.-External links:* from JPL / ** 2011 05 29, 2:55:09 UT; mag 18.0 N; C. Bell H47... |
Forbes Alexander F. I. Forbes Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes was a South African astronomer.He was born in Scotland in Kinellar, Aberdeenshire and came to South Africa in 1896. He returned to Scotland to study but emigrated permanently to South Africa in 1909... |
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| 38P/Stephan–Oterma | Stephan Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in some literature, but this is apparently erroneous.... & Oterma Liisi Oterma Liisi Oterma was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discovered or co-discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P/Stephan-Oterma and 39P/Oterma, and quite a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1529 Oterma was named in her honour.-... |
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| 39P/Oterma 39P/Oterma 39P/Oterma is a periodic comet in our solar system. It has a centaur like orbit with a perihelion greater than Jupiter and a semi-major axis less than Neptune.... |
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| 40P/Väisälä (Väisälä 1) | Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology... |
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| 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák | Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle .... & Giacobini Michel Giacobini Michel Giacobini was a French astronomer.He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner , 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini... & Kresák Lubor Kresák Ľubor Kresák was a Slovak astronomer.He discovered two comets: the periodic comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and the non-periodic C/1954 M2 .... |
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| 42P/Neujmin 42P/Neujmin 42P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 3, is a periodic comet in our solar system.This comet and 53P/Van Biesbroeck are fragments of a parent comet that split in March 1845.... (Neujmin 3) |
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| 43P/Wolf–Harrington | Wolf & Harrington Robert G. Harrington Robert G. Harrington was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory. He should not be confused with Robert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at the US Naval Observatory.... |
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| 44P/Reinmuth (Reinmuth 2) | Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer.He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids , beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany from 1912 to 1957.His most notable... |
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| 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková | Honda Minoru Honda was a Japanese amateur astronomer.He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková.He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni at magnitude 3.0 on August 29, 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries... & Mrkos Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia... & Pajdušáková Ludmila Pajdušáková Ľudmila Pajdušáková was a Slovak astronomer.She specialized in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, and the non-periodic C/1946 K1 , C/1948 E1 , C/1951 C1 and C/1953 X1 .She observed at Skalnaté Pleso... |
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| 46P/Wirtanen 46P/Wirtanen 46P/Wirtanen is a small short-periodic comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency. It belongs to the Jupiter family of comets, all of which have aphelia between 5 and 6 AU. Its... |
Wirtanen | ICE International Cometary Explorer The International Cometary Explorer spacecraft was originally known as International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 satellite, launched August 12, 1978. It was part of the ISEE international cooperative program between NASA and ESRO/ESA to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and the... (distant flyby 2018 – proposed) |
| 47P/Ashbrook–Jackson | Ashbrook Joseph Ashbrook Joseph Ashbrook was an American astronomer.-Life:Ashbrook was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1947 and taught at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, and at Harvard from 1950 to 1953... & Jackson Cyril V. Jackson Cyril Jackson was a South African astronomer.He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911.... |
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| 48P/Johnson 48P/Johnson 48P/Johnson is a periodic comet in our solar system.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 5.7 kilometers in diameter by Lamy, Fernandez, and Weaver. David C. Jewitt and Scott S. Sheppard estimate the nucleus to have dimensions of 6.0 x 4.4 km.... |
Johnson Ernest Leonard Johnson Ernest Leonard Johnson was a South African astronomer.He was a former staff member of Union Observatory, retiring in 1956.He discovered a number of asteroids, and several comets, including periodic comet 48P/Johnson.-External references:... |
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| 49P/Arend–Rigaux | Arend Sylvain Julien Victor Arend Sylvain Julien Victor Arend was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg . His main interest was astrometry.Together with Georges Roland, he discovered the bright comet C/1956 R1... & Rigaux Fernand Rigaux Fernand Rigaux was a Belgian astronomer who observed at the Royal Observatory at Uccle, Belgium. In 1951, he co-discovered the periodic comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux with his colleague Sylvain Arend. He also discovered several asteroids.-References:... |
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| 50P/Arend 50P/Arend Comet Arend or 50P/Arend is a periodic comet in our solar system which was discovered on October 4, 1951. It was discovered by astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium located in the municipality of Uccle. The comet was illustrated at approximately a magnitude of... |
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| 51P/Harrington | Harrington Robert G. Harrington Robert G. Harrington was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory. He should not be confused with Robert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at the US Naval Observatory.... |
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| 52P/Harrington–Abell | Harrington & Abell George Ogden Abell George Ogden Abell was an astronomer at UCLA. He worked as a research astronomer, teacher, administrator, popularizer of science and education, and skeptic. Abell received his B.S. , M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology... |
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| 53P/Van Biesbroeck 53P/Van Biesbroeck 53P/Van Biesbroeck is a periodic comet in our solar system.This comet and 42P/Neujmin are fragments of a parent comet that split in March 1845.-External links:*... |
Van Biesbroeck George Van Biesbroeck George A. Van Biesbroeck was a Belgian-American astronomer. He worked at observatories in Belgium, Germany and the United States. He specialized in the observation of double stars, asteroids and comets... |
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| 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT | de Vico Francesco de Vico Father Francesco de Vico was an Italian astronomer at Vatican Observatory, and also a Jesuit priest. His name is also written De Vico and even DeVico.... & Swift Edward D. Swift Edward D. Swift was an American astronomer. He was the son of the astronomer Lewis Swift.His father discovered many comets, and Edward Swift followed in his footsteps by co-discovering the periodic comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT.-External links:... & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 55P/Tempel–Tuttle | Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy.... & Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle .... |
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| 56P/Slaughter–Burnham | Slaughter & Burnham Robert Burnham, Jr. Robert Burnham, Jr. was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.-Early work:... |
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| 57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte | du Toit Daniel du Toit Daniel du Toit was a South African astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte, 66P/du Toit, 79P/du Toit-Hartley. He worked at Boyden Observatory.-References:*... & Neujmin & Delporte Eugène Joseph Delporte Eugène Joseph Delporte was a Belgian astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte... |
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| 58P/Jackson–Neujmin | Jackson Cyril V. Jackson Cyril Jackson was a South African astronomer.He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911.... & Neujmin |
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| 60P/Tsuchinshan 60P/Tsuchinshan 60P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 2, is a periodic comet in our solar system.- External links :*... (Tsuchinshan 2) |
Tsuchinshan Purple Mountain Observatory Purple Mountain Observatory , also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, is an astronomical observatory located on the Purple Mountain in Nanjing, China.The long time director of the observatory was Zhang Yuzhe Purple Mountain Observatory , also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory,... |
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| 61P/Shajn–Schaldach | Shajn Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn née Sannikova was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, her surname would be given as Shayn, but her astronomical discoveries are credited under the name P. F. Shajn... & Schaldach |
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| 62P/Tsuchinshan (Tsuchinshan 1) | Tsuchinshan Purple Mountain Observatory Purple Mountain Observatory , also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, is an astronomical observatory located on the Purple Mountain in Nanjing, China.The long time director of the observatory was Zhang Yuzhe Purple Mountain Observatory , also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory,... |
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| 63P/Wild (Wild 1) | Wild Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer) Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.- Career :Professor Wild was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne from 1980 to 1991... |
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| 64P/Swift–Gehrels | Swift Lewis A. Swift Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle... & Gehrels Tom Gehrels Tom Gehrels , was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.... |
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| 65P/Gunn 65P/Gunn - External links :* from JPL / * * – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net* at Las Cumbres Observatory... |
Gunn James E. Gunn James Edward Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Gunn's early theoretical work in astronomy has helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form, and the properties of the space between galaxies... |
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| 66P/du Toit | du Toit Daniel du Toit Daniel du Toit was a South African astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte, 66P/du Toit, 79P/du Toit-Hartley. He worked at Boyden Observatory.-References:*... |
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| 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko | Churyumov & Gerasimenko | Rosetta Rosetta (spacecraft) Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft of the European Space Agency on a mission to study the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe and the Philae lander. The spacecraft was launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and will reach the comet by... (orbiter 2014) |
| 68P/Klemola 68P/Klemola 68P/Klemola or Klemola's Comet is a periodic comet, which belongs to Jupiter's comet family, that was discovered in 1965 by American astronomer Arnold Klemola in Argentinian Yale-Columbia Southern Station. Its orbital period is 10.82 years.... |
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| 69P/Taylor 69P/Taylor Comet Taylor, is a periodic comet in the solar system, first discovered by Clement J. Taylor on November 24, 1915.George van Biesbroeck and E. E. Barnard observed that the comet was split into two distinct nucleus, but this was not seen after March 16.The comet was predicted to return in 1922,... |
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| 70P/Kojima | Kojima Nobuhisa Kojima is a Japanese astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 70P/Kojima.Asteroid 4351 Nobuhisa was named after him.-Reference:... |
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| 72D/Denning–Fujikawa | Denning William Frederick Denning William Frederick Denning was a British astronomer.Denning devoted a great deal of time to searching for comets, and discovered several including the periodic comet 72P/Denning-Fujikawa and the lost comet D/1894 F1... & Fujikawa Shigehisa Fujikawa is a Japanese astronomer. He co-discovered periodic comet 72P/Denning-Fujikawa.-References :... |
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| 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann (Schwassmann–Wachmann 3) | Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann was a German astronomer.He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 .... & Wachmann Arno Arthur Wachmann Arthur Arno Wachmann was a German astronomer.With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann.... |
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| 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh | Smirnova Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova was a Russian astronomer.From 1966 to 1988 she was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered various asteroids... & Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast... |
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| 75D/Kohoutek | Kohoutek Luboš Kohoutek Luboš Kohoutek is a Czech astronomer.Kohoutek has been interested with astronomy since high school. He studied physics and astronomy at universities in Brno and Prague... |
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| 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura | West & Kohoutek & Ikemura | |
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| 78P/Gehrels 78P/Gehrels 78P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.- Outward migration :Comet 78P/Gehrels' aphelion of 5.4AU is in the zone of control of the giant planet Jupiter and the orbit of the comet is frequently perturbed by Jupiter... (Gehrels 2) |
Gehrels Tom Gehrels Tom Gehrels , was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.... |
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| 79P/du Toit–Hartley | du Toit Daniel du Toit Daniel du Toit was a South African astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte, 66P/du Toit, 79P/du Toit-Hartley. He worked at Boyden Observatory.-References:*... & Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 80P/Peters–Hartley | Peters Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids.... & Hartley |
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| 81P/Wild 81P/Wild Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 , is a comet named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it in 1978 using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald.... (Wild 2) |
Wild Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer) Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.- Career :Professor Wild was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne from 1980 to 1991... |
Stardust Stardust (spacecraft) Stardust is a 300-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on February 7, 1999 to study the asteroid 5535 Annefrank and collect samples from the coma of comet Wild 2. The primary mission was completed January 15, 2006, when the sample return capsule returned to Earth... (flyby/sample return 2004) |
| 82P/Gehrels 82P/Gehrels 82P/Gehrels is a comet that was discovered on October 27, 1975 by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California. It has an estimated diameter of 1.46 km. This object has been identified as a quasi-Hilda comet, which means it is in a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with the planet Jupiter.... (Gehrels 3) |
Gehrels Tom Gehrels Tom Gehrels , was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.... |
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| 83D/Russell (Russell 1) | Russell | |
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Giclas Henry L. Giclas Henry Lee Giclas was an American astronomer.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham, Jr. to work there.He discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 84P/Giclas.... |
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| 85P/Boethin 85P/Boethin Comet Boethin is a periodic comet discovered in 1975 by Reverend Leo Boethin. It appeared again in 1986 January as expected... |
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| 86P/Wild (Wild 3) | Wild Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer) Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.- Career :Professor Wild was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne from 1980 to 1991... |
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| 87P/Bus 87P/Bus Comet 87P/Bus was discovered by Schelte J. Bus in 1981 on a plate taken with the 1.2m UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, Australia. The discovery was announced in IAU Circular 3578 on March 4, 1981. The comet's orbit takes it around the Sun every 6.51 years.- References :*... |
Bus Schelte J. Bus Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF. He received his B.S. from Caltech in 1979, and was awarded his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.Bus... |
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| 89P/Russell (Russell 2) | Russell | |
| 90P/Gehrels (Gehrels 1) | Gehrels Tom Gehrels Tom Gehrels , was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.... |
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| 91P/Russell 91P/Russell 91P/Russell, also known as Russell 3, is a periodic comet in the solar system. It was discovered by Kenneth S. Russell in 1983.- External links :*... (Russell 3) |
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| 92P/Sanguin | Sanguin | |
| 93P/Lovas (Lovas 1) | Lovas | |
| 94P/Russell 94P/Russell 94P/Russell 4 is a periodic comet in the solar system. It was discovered by Kenneth S. Rusell on photographic plates taken by M. Hawkins on March 7, 1984. In the discovery images, Russell estimated that the comet had an apparent magnitude of 13 and a noticeable tail of 5 arc minutes... (Russell 4) |
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| 95P/Chiron = minor planet 2060 Chiron 2060 Chiron 2060 Chiron is a minor planet in the outer Solar System. Discovered in 1977 by Charles T. Kowal , it was the first-known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between Saturn and Uranus.Although it was initially classified as an asteroid, it was later found to... |
Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... |
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| 96P/Machholz 96P/Machholz Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a short-period comet discovered on May 12, 1986 by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz in Loma Prieta, California. Comet 96P/Machholz will next come to perihelion on July 14, 2012.... (Machholz 1) |
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| 97P/Metcalf–Brewington | Metcalf Joel Hastings Metcalf Joel Hastings Metcalf was an American astronomer.Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.He discovered or co-discovered several comets,... & Brewington |
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| 98P/Takamizawa 98P/Takamizawa - External links :*... |
Takamizawa Kesao Takamizawa is a Japanese astronomer. He discovered the periodic comet 98P/Takamizawa. The asteroid 8720 Takamizawa is named after him. He has discovered many other asteroids.-References:... |
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| 99P/Kowal 99P/Kowal - References :*... (Kowal 1) |
Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... |
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| 100P/Hartley (Hartley 1) | Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 101P/Chernykh 101P/Chernykh 101P/Chernykh is a periodic comet which was first discovered on August 19, 1977, by Nikolaj Stepanovich Chernykh.In 1992, 101P/Chernykh was observed to split. JPL concluded that the comet split in April 1991, when 3.3 AU from the Sun.... |
Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast... |
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| 102P/Shoemaker 102P/Shoemaker 102P/Shoemaker, also known as Shoemaker 1, is a periodic comet in our solar system.-External links:*... (Shoemaker 1) |
C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... & E. Shoemaker |
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| 103P/Hartley 103P/Hartley Comet Hartley 2, designated as 103P/Hartley by the Minor Planet Center, is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.46 years. It was discovered by Malcolm Hartley in 1986 at the Schmidt Telescope Unit, Siding Spring Observatory, Australia... (Hartley 2) |
Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 104P/Kowal (Kowal 2) | Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... |
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| 105P/Singer Brewster 105P/Singer Brewster 105P/Singer Brewster is a periodic comet in our solar system. Its name is unusual: co-discovered comets commonly bear the names of the co-discoverers linked by hyphens rather than dashes... |
Singer-Brewster Stephen Singer-Brewster Stephen C. Singer-Brewster is an American astronomer.Mr. Brewster is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey as an observer and astrometrist under the direction of Dr. Eleanor F. Helin from 1985 to 1988.... |
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| 106P/Schuster | Schuster Hans-Emil Schuster Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory , and was former acting director of La Silla Observatory... |
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| 107P/Wilson–Harrington = minor planet 4015 Wilson–Harrington | Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... & Wilson Albert George Wilson Albert George Wilson is an American astronomer.He was born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947; his thesis title was Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid.... & Harrington Robert G. Harrington Robert G. Harrington was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory. He should not be confused with Robert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at the US Naval Observatory.... |
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| 108P/Ciffréo | Ciffréo | |
| 109P/Swift–Tuttle | Swift Lewis A. Swift Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle... & Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle Horace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle .... |
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| 110P/Hartley (Hartley 3) | Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett | Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... & Roman Brian P. Roman Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.He discovered a number of asteroids, and also co-discovered the periodic comets 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett, 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu and 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu.The asteroid 4575 Broman was named in his honour.- Sources :... & Crockett |
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| 112P/Urata–Niijima | Urata Takeshi Urata is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet in over fifty years. He named it after it his daughter, Mizuho. His pioneering feat led to an upsurge in such discoveries. In the... & Niijima Tsuneo Niijima is a Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He co-discovered the periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima.Asteroid 5507 Niijima is named after him.-References:... |
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| 113P/Spitaler 113P/Spitaler Comet Spitaler is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler on November 17, 1890 whilst attempting to observe Comet Zona .Spitaler, together with G. M. Searle, J. F. Tennant, and J. R... |
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| 114P/Wiseman–Skiff | Wiseman Jennifer Wiseman Jennifer J. Wiseman is an American astronomer. She received her bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1995. Wiseman discovered periodic comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff while working as an undergraduate research assistant in 1987... & Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
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Wild Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer) Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.- Career :Professor Wild was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne from 1980 to 1991... |
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| 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu (Helin–Roman–Alu 1) | Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... & Roman Brian P. Roman Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.He discovered a number of asteroids, and also co-discovered the periodic comets 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett, 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu and 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu.The asteroid 4575 Broman was named in his honour.- Sources :... & Alu Jeff T. Alu Jeffrey Thomas Alu is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids. He also co-discovered the periodic comets 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu and 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu. The asteroid 4104 Alu was named in his honour.-External links:*... |
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| 118P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 4) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 119P/Parker–Hartley | Parker & Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 120P/Mueller 120P/Mueller 120P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 1, is a periodic comet in our solar system.- External links :*... (Mueller 1) |
Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 121P/Shoemaker–Holt (Shoemaker–Holt 2) | C.Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E.Shoemaker & Holt Henry E. Holt Henry E. Holt is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids. He is also a co-discoverer of periodic comets 121P/Shoemaker-Holt, 127P/Holt-Olmstead and 128P/Shoemaker-Holt.... |
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| 122P/de Vico 122P/de Vico 122P/de Vico is a short-period comet. It was discovered by Francesco de Vico in Rome on February 20, 1846.- External links :*... |
de Vico Francesco de Vico Father Francesco de Vico was an Italian astronomer at Vatican Observatory, and also a Jesuit priest. His name is also written De Vico and even DeVico.... |
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| 123P/West–Hartley | West & Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
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| 124P/Mrkos | Mrkos Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia... |
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| 125P/Spacewatch | Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... |
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| 127P/Holt–Olmstead | Holt Henry E. Holt Henry E. Holt is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids. He is also a co-discoverer of periodic comets 121P/Shoemaker-Holt, 127P/Holt-Olmstead and 128P/Shoemaker-Holt.... & Olmstead C. Michelle Olmstead C. Michelle Olmstead is an American astronomer.She is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. She is also a co-discoverer of periodic comet 127P/Holt-Olmstead. The asteroid 3287 Olmstead was named in her honor.-References:... |
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| 128P/Shoemaker–Holt (Shoemaker–Holt 1) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Holt Henry E. Holt Henry E. Holt is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids. He is also a co-discoverer of periodic comets 121P/Shoemaker-Holt, 127P/Holt-Olmstead and 128P/Shoemaker-Holt.... |
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| 129P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 3) | C. Shoemaker, E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 130P/McNaught–Hughes | McNaught Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.... & Hughes Shaun M. Hughes Shaun M. Hughes was an Australian astronomer at Siding Spring Observatory.He co-discovered the periodic comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes.The asteroid 1878 Hughes was likely named after another astronomer, David Hughes, of the University of Sheffield.... |
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| 131P/Mueller (Mueller 2) | Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu (Helin–Roman–Alu 2) | Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... & Roman Brian P. Roman Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.He discovered a number of asteroids, and also co-discovered the periodic comets 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett, 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu and 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu.The asteroid 4575 Broman was named in his honour.- Sources :... & Alu Jeff T. Alu Jeffrey Thomas Alu is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids. He also co-discovered the periodic comets 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu and 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu. The asteroid 4104 Alu was named in his honour.-External links:*... |
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| 133P/Elst–Pizarro = minor planet 7968 Elst–Pizarro | Elst Eric Walter Elst Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far .... & Pizarro Guido Pizarro Guido Hernán Pizarro Demestri is an Argentine football midfielder. He currently plays for Lanús.-External links:... |
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| 134P/Kowal–Vávrová | Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... & Vávrová Zdenka Vávrová Zdeňka Vávrová is a Czech astronomer.She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, later images by Charles T. Kowal showed a coma.She has also discovered a... |
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| 135P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 8) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 136P/Mueller 136P/Mueller 136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in our solar system.- External links :*... (Mueller 3) |
Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 137P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 2) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 138P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 7) | C. Shoemaker, E. Shoemaker & Levy | |
| 139P/Väisälä–Oterma | Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology... & Oterma Liisi Oterma Liisi Oterma was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discovered or co-discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P/Stephan-Oterma and 39P/Oterma, and quite a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1529 Oterma was named in her honour.-... |
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| 140P/Bowell–Skiff | Bowell Edward L. G. Bowell Edward L. G. Bowell , known as "Ted", is an American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, and the Université de Paris.... & Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
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| 141P/Machholz (Machholz 2) | Machholz | |
| 142P/Ge–Wang | Ge & Wang | |
| 143P/Kowal–Mrkos | Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... & Mrkos Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- Biography :Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia... |
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| 144P/Kushida 144P/Kushida 144P/Kushida is a periodic comet discovered in January, 1994, by Yoshio Kushida at the Yatsugatake South Base Observatory in Japan. This was the first comet discovery of 1994 and his second discovery within a month.... |
Kushida Yoshio Kushida is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He discovered comet 144P/Kushida and was co-discoverer of comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.-External links:* http://www.nayoro-star.jp/photo/tenmondai-houmon/kushida.html... |
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| 145P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 5) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 146P/Shoemaker–LINEAR | C. Shoemaker, E. Shoemaker & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 147P/Kushida–Muramatsu | Kushida Yoshio Kushida is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He discovered comet 144P/Kushida and was co-discoverer of comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.-External links:* http://www.nayoro-star.jp/photo/tenmondai-houmon/kushida.html... & Muramatsu Osamu Muramatsu is a Japanese astronomer, and is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He also co-discovered periodic comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.-External links:*... |
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| 148P/Anderson–LINEAR | Anderson & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 149P/Mueller (Mueller 4) | Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 150P/LONEOS | LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... |
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| 151P/Helin | Helin Eleanor F. Helin Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin... |
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| 152P/Helin–Lawrence | Helin & Lawrence Kenneth J. Lawrence Kenneth J. Lawrence is an American astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids, and also co-discovered periodic comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence. The asteroid 4969 Lawrence is named in his honor.-References:... |
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| 153P/Ikeya–Zhang | Ikeya Kaoru Ikeya is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.As a young adult, Ikeya lived near Lake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made his first discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he built himself within his low budget... & Zhang Zhang Daqing Zhang Daqing is a Chinese amateur astronomer. He is from Henan province.He co-discovered periodic comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang. He is the first Chinese amateur astronomer who has a comet name after him. He is also a telescope maker... |
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| 154P/Brewington | Brewington | |
| 155P/Shoemaker (Shoemaker 3) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... & E. Shoemaker |
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| 156P/Russell–LINEAR | Russell & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 157P/Tritton 157P/Tritton -External links:*... |
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| 158P/Kowal–LINEAR | Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 159P/LONEOS 159P/LONEOS - External links :*... |
LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... |
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| 160P/LINEAR 160P/LINEAR - External links :*... |
LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 161P/Hartley–IRAS | Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... & IRAS |
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| 162P/Siding Spring | Siding Spring Siding Spring Observatory Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University , incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National... |
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| 163P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 164P/Christensen 164P/Christensen -External links:*... |
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| 165P/LINEAR 165P/LINEAR - External links :*... |
LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 166P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 167P/CINEOS 167P/CINEOS - External links :*... |
CINEOS Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey The CINEOS program , started in 2001, is dedicated to the discovery and follow-up of Near Earth objects, namely asteroids and comets which periodically approach or intersect the Earth's orbit.... |
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| 168P/Hergenrother 168P/Hergenrother 168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet originally named P/1998 W2 returned in 2005 and got the temporary name P/2005 N2.- External links :*... |
Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother is an American astronomer.Working with the Catalina Sky Survey and other colleagues, he has co-discovered a number of comets and asteroids.... |
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| 169P/NEAT 169P/NEAT 169/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system. It is the parent body of the alpha Capricornids meteor shower.- External links :*... |
NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 170P/Christensen 170P/Christensen -External links:*... |
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| 171P/Spahr 171P/Spahr - External links :* *... |
Spahr Timothy B. Spahr Timothy B. Spahr is an American astronomer.He works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as director of the Minor Planet Center, has discovered numerous asteroids and is credited as a co-discoverer of one satellite of Jupiter and one of Saturn .He also discovered two periodic comets... |
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| 172P/Yeung 172P/Yeung - External links :**... |
Yeung William Kwong Yu Yeung William Kwong Yu Yeung is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian astronomer with telescopes based in the United States.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and also discovered the comet 172P/Yeung... |
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| 173P/Mueller 173P/Mueller 173P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 5, is a periodic comet in our solar system.- External links :*... (Mueller 5) |
Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 174P/Echeclus = minor planet 60558 Echeclus 60558 Echeclus 60558 Echeclus is a centaur in the outer Solar System. It was discovered by Spacewatch in 2000 and initially classified as an asteroid with provisional designation . Research in 2001 by Rousselot and Petit at the Besançon observatory in France showed no evidence of cometary activity, but in late... |
Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... |
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| 175P/Hergenrother | Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother is an American astronomer.Working with the Catalina Sky Survey and other colleagues, he has co-discovered a number of comets and asteroids.... |
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| 176P/LINEAR = minor planet 118401 LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 177P/Barnard (Barnard 2) | Barnard | |
| 178P/Hug–Bell | Hug Gary Hug Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer. Along with Graham E. Bell, he operates Farpoint Observatory in Eskridge, Kansas.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, and co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell.-References:... & Bell Graham E. Bell Graham E. Bell is an American astronomer. Along with Gary Hug, he operates Farpoint Observatory in Eskridge, Kansas.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, and co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell.- References :*... |
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| 179P/Jedicke | Jedicke | |
| 180P/NEAT | NEAT | |
| 181P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 6) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 182P/LONEOS | LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... |
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| 183P/Korlević–Jurić | Korlević Korado Korlevic Korado Korlević is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids Korado Korlević (born Poreč, 1958) is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids Korado Korlević (born Poreč, 1958) is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids (1197 as of... & Jurić Mario Juric Mario Jurić is a Croatian astronomer.Jurić was born in Zagreb. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, and received a doctorate at Princeton University in 2007.... |
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| 184P/Lovas (Lovas 2) | Lovas | |
| 185P/Petriew | Petriew | |
| 186P/Garradd | Garradd Gordon J. Garradd Gordon J. Garradd is an Australian astronomer from Loomberah, New South Wales. He has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, including Comet Garradd, and 4 novae in the LMC... |
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| 187P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 188P/LINEAR–Mueller | LINEAR & Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 189P/NEAT | NEAT | |
| 190P/Mueller | Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
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| 191P/McNaught | McNaught Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.... |
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| 192P/Shoemaker–Levy (Shoemaker–Levy 1) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
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| 193P/LINEAR–NEAT | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 194P/LINEAR | LINEAR http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0194P/2000B3.html | |
| 195P/Hill | Hill | |
| 196P/Tichý | Tichý Miloš Tichý Miloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer. He is married to Jana Tichá.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He works together with his wife at Kleť Observatory. The asteroid 3337 Miloš is named after him.... IAUC 8917 |
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| 197P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... IAUC 8924 |
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| 198P/ODAS | OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey The OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey was a European scientific project to search for asteroids and comets. This project was the joint work of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in France and the Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Germany... (ODAS)http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08G10.html, IAUC 8929 |
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| 199P/Shoemaker (Shoemaker 4) | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... & E. Shoemaker CBET 1347 |
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| 200P/Larsen | Larsen | |
| 201P/LONEOS | LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0201P/2008.html |
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| 202P/Scotti | Scotti James V. Scotti James Vernon Scotti is an American astronomer. He was born in Bandon, Oregon and graduated from Woodway Senior High in Edmonds, Washington in 1978. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1983. Ever since that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project,... http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0202P/2001X2.html |
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| 203P/Korlević | Korlević Korado Korlevic Korado Korlević is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids Korado Korlević (born Poreč, 1958) is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids Korado Korlević (born Poreč, 1958) is a Croatian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids (1197 as of... IAUC 8974 |
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| 204P/LINEAR–NEAT | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... IAUC 8974 |
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| 205P/Giacobini | Giacobini Michel Giacobini Michel Giacobini was a French astronomer.He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner , 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini... (previously thought lost and designated D/1896 R2) IAUC 8975 |
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| 206P/Barnard–Boattini | Barnard & Boattini Andrea Boattini Andrea Boattini is an Italian astronomer, a prolific discoverer of asteroids and comets.After developing a growing interest in minor planets, he graduated in 1996 from the University of Bologna with a thesis on near-Earth objects... [previously thought lost and designated D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3)] IAUC 8995 |
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| 207P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... IAUC 8996 |
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| 208P/McMillan | McMillan Robert S. McMillan Robert S. McMillan is an astronomer at the University of Arizona, and heads the Spacewatch project, which studies minor planets. He has made various discoveries, including notably 20000 Varuna.... IAUC 8997, IAUC 9000 |
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| 209P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... IAUC 9002 |
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| 210P/Christensen | Christensen IAUC 9005 | |
| 211P/Hill | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) IAUC 9001 | |
| 212P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... IAUC 9010 |
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| 213P/Van Ness | Van Ness IAUC 9017 | |
| 214P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... IAUC 9017 |
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| 215P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... IAUC 9018 |
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| 216P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... IAUC 9021 |
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| 217P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
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| 220P/McNaught | McNaught Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.... |
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| 221P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 222P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 223P/Skiff | Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
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| 224P/LINEAR–NEAT | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 225P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 226P/Pigott–LINEAR–Kowalski | Pigott Edward Pigott Edward Pigott was an English astronomer, and the son of astronomer Nathaniel Pigott and Anna Mathurine de Bériot . Probably born in Whitton, Middlesex, his elder brother, Charles Gregory, died in young age. He also had a younger sister, Mathurina... & LINEAR & Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects.Kowalski has had a lifelong interest in astronomy with an emphasis on planetary science. As an amateur in Florida during the 1990s he developed an interest in astrometric and... |
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| 227P/Catalina–LINEAR | Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... & LINEAR |
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| 228P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 229P/Gibbs | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
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| 230P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 231P/LINEAR–NEAT | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 232P/Hill | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) | |
| 233P/La Sagra | La Sagra Sky Survey | |
| 234P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 235P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 236P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 237P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 238P/Read 238P/Read 238P/Read is a Main-belt comet discovered on 2005 October 24. It has an orbit within the main asteroid belt and has displayed the coma of a traditional comet.... |
Read (Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... ) |
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| 239P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 240P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 241P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 242P/Spahr | Spahr Timothy B. Spahr Timothy B. Spahr is an American astronomer.He works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as director of the Minor Planet Center, has discovered numerous asteroids and is credited as a co-discoverer of one satellite of Jupiter and one of Saturn .He also discovered two periodic comets... |
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| 243P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 244P/Scotti | Scotti James V. Scotti James Vernon Scotti is an American astronomer. He was born in Bandon, Oregon and graduated from Woodway Senior High in Edmonds, Washington in 1978. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1983. Ever since that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project,... |
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| 245P/WISE | WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched on December 14, 2009, and decommissioned/hibernated on February 17, 2011 when its transmitter was turned off... |
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| 246P/NEAT | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
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| 247P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 248P/Gibbs | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
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| 249P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 250P/Larson | Larson (Catalina Sky Survey) | |
| 251P/LINEAR | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
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| 252P/LINEAR | LINEAR | |
| 253P/PANSTARRS | Pan-STARRS Pan-STARRS The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System is a planned array of astronomical cameras and telescopes and computing facility that will survey the sky on a continual basis, including accurate astrometry and photometry of detected objects... |
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| 254P/McNaught | McNaught Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.... |
Unnumbered periodic comets
| Comet | Discoverer(s) or Namesake |
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| P/2011 N1 (ASH) | de la Cueva, Ortiz José Luis Ortiz Moreno José Luis Ortiz Moreno is an astronomer, and former Vicedirector of Technology at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía , Spain. He leads a team working on minor solar system objects at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, Spain.... , Santos Sanz & Morales |
| D/1884 O1 (Barnard), earlier Barnard 1 | Barnard |
| P/2001 W2 (BATTeRS) | BATTeRS |
| P/2005 V1 (Bernardi) | Bernardi Fabrizio Bernardi Fabrizio Bernardi is an astronomer.-Contributions:In October of 2001 he discovered an asteroid, proceeded by near earth objects : 2002 RQ25 3 , 2002 WP11 and the NEO 2003 FB5 Fabrizio Bernardi is an astronomer.-Contributions:In October of 2001 he discovered an asteroid, proceeded by near earth... |
| P/2008 J2 (Beshore) | Beshore (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| D/1819 W1 (Blanpain) | Blanpain |
| P/2008 O3 (Boattini) | Boattini Andrea Boattini Andrea Boattini is an Italian astronomer, a prolific discoverer of asteroids and comets.After developing a growing interest in minor planets, he graduated in 1996 from the University of Bologna with a thesis on near-Earth objects... (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| P/2008 T1 (Boattini) | Boattini (Mount Lemmon Survey) http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08T98.html |
| P/2009 B1 (Boattini) | Boattini (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2009 Q4 (Boattini) | Boattini (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2010 U1 (Boattini) | Boattini (Mount Lemmon Survey) |
| P/2011 V1 (Boattini) | Boattini (Mount Lemmon Survey) |
| P/1984 A1 (Bradfield), earlier Bradfield 1 | Bradfield William A. Bradfield William A. Bradfield is one of the best known comet hunters in the world.He was born in New Zealand and lives in Australia. He is not a professional astronomer. He discovered his first comet in 1972. The comet C/1972 E1 has only his name, as the other 17 comets he found with a six-inch telescope.... |
| P/1989 A3 (Bradfield), earlier Bradfield 2 | Bradfield |
| P/2011 U2 (Bressi) | Bressi (Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... ) |
| D/1886 K1 (Brooks), earlier Brooks 1 | Brooks William Robert Brooks William Robert Brooks was a British-born American astronomer, mainly noted as being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons... |
| P/2005 T5 (Broughton) | Broughton John Broughton John Broughton is an Australian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. His observations are done at Reedy Creek Observatory in Queensland .-Discoveries and research:... |
| P/1999 V1 (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... (Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother Carl W. Hergenrother is an American astronomer.Working with the Catalina Sky Survey and other colleagues, he has co-discovered a number of comets and asteroids.... ) |
| (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey |
| (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey |
| (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey |
| P/2005 N5 (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey |
| P/2007 C2 (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07C54.html |
| P/2007 T6 (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007T6/2007T6.html |
| (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08C02.html |
| P/2008 E1 (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08F36.html |
| (Catalina) | Catalina Sky Survey |
| P/2008 S1 (Catalina–McNaught) | Catalina Sky Survey & McNaught Robert H. McNaught Robert H. McNaught is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.... http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08S77.html |
| (Catalina–NEAT) | Catalina Sky Survey & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| P/2005 L4 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2005 O2 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2005 T2 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2005 W2 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2006 F2 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2006 R2 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2006 S1 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2006 S4 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2006 U5 (Christensen) | Christensen |
| (Christensen) | Christensen |
| P/2007 B1 (Christensen) | Christensen http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07B25.html |
| P/2007 C1 (Christensen) | Christensen (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07C69.html |
| D/1894 F1 (Denning) | Denning William Frederick Denning William Frederick Denning was a British astronomer.Denning devoted a great deal of time to searching for comets, and discovered several including the periodic comet 72P/Denning-Fujikawa and the lost comet D/1894 F1... |
| P/1921 H1 (Dubiago) | Dubiago |
| (Elenin) | Elenin Leonid Elenin Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory via the International Sceintific Optical Network which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West.... & Molotov |
| P/2007 H3 (Garradd) | Garradd http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07H55.html |
| P/2007 R4 (Garradd) | Garradd http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07S04.html |
| P/2008 R1 (Garradd) | Garradd http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08T96.html |
| P/1997 C1 (Gehrels) | Gehrels Tom Gehrels Tom Gehrels , was an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.... |
| P/2006 U7 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| P/2006 W1 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
| P/2006 Y2 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2007 K2 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey) http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07K52.html |
| P/2007 R2 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2007 R3 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07S02.html |
| P/2007 T4 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007T4/2007T4.html |
| P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2009 K1 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| P/2011 C2 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Mount Lemmon Survey) |
| P/2011 S1 (Gibbs) | Gibbs (Mount Lemmon Survey) |
| P/2007 Q2 (Gilmore) | Gilmore Alan C. Gilmore Alan Charles Gilmore is a New Zealand astronomer.He has discovered some forty asteroids, each one in collaboration with Pamela M. Kilmartin; both of them are also active "nova-" and "comet-hunters". He works at Mount John University Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of... |
| D/1978 R1 (Haneda–Campos) | Haneda & Campos |
| D/1952 B1 (Harrington–Wilson) | Harrington Robert G. Harrington Robert G. Harrington was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory. He should not be confused with Robert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at the US Naval Observatory.... & Wilson Albert George Wilson Albert George Wilson is an American astronomer.He was born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947; his thesis title was Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid.... |
| D/1766 G1 (Helfenzrieder) | Helfenzrieder |
| P/1999 D1 (Hermann) | Hermann |
| P/2006 D1 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
| P/2006 S6 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2007 V2 (Hill) | Hill (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007V2/2007V2.html |
| P/2008 L2 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
| P/2008 T4 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08T90.html |
| P/2009 O3 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2009 Q1 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2009 W1 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2010 A1 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2010 A3 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2010 U2 (Hill) | Hill (Catalina Sky Survey) |
| P/2010 V1 (Ikeya–Murakami) | Ikeya Kaoru Ikeya is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.As a young adult, Ikeya lived near Lake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made his first discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he built himself within his low budget... & Murakami |
| P/2010 E2 (Jarnac) | Jarnac Observatory (D. Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... , W. Levy & T. Glinos) |
| P/1998 U3 (Jäger) | Jäger |
| P/1996 A1 (Jedicke) | V. Jedicke & R. Jedicke |
| P/1997 B1 P/1997 B1 On January 30 and January 31, 1997, Takao Kobayashi observed an object, P/1997 B1 , which was initially thought to be a minor planet and was reported to the IAU as such by S. Nakano. Over the next few days, the object was observed to be in a cometary orbit. W... (Kobayashi) |
Kobayashi Takao Kobayashi is an amateur Japanese astronomer who currently works at the Ōizumi Observatory.- Accomplishment :Kobayashi has discovered more than 2000 asteroids using CCD technology, including the Amor asteroids 7358 Oze, , and about nine Trojan asteroids... |
| P/2005 W3 (Kowalski) | Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects.Kowalski has had a lifelong interest in astronomy with an emphasis on planetary science. As an amateur in Florida during the 1990s he developed an interest in astrometric and... (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
| P/2006 F1 (Kowalski) | Kowalski (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| P/2007 T2 (Kowalski) | Kowalski (Catalina Sky Survey) http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007T2/2007T2.html |
| P/2009 Y2 (Kowalski) | Kowalski (Mount Lemmon Survey) |
| P/2011 S2 (Kowalski) | Kowalski (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... ) |
| (La Sagra) | La Sagra Sky Survey |
| P/2009 T2 (La Sagra) | La Sagra Sky Survey |
| P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) | La Sagra Sky Survey |
| P/1996 R2 (Lagerkvist) | Lagerkvist Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is known for his work on the shapes and spin properties of minor planets.... |
| P/1997 T3 (Lagerkvist–Carsenty) | Lagerkvist & Carsenty |
| P/2004 C1 (Larsen) | Larsen |
| P/2004 H2 (Larsen) | Larsen |
| P/2004 H3 (Larsen) | Larsen |
| P/2005 N3 (Larson) | Larson (Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... ) |
| P/2007 R1 (Larson) | Larson (Mount Lemmon Survey)http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07R36.html |
| P/2007 V1 (Larson) | Larson (Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... )http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007V1/2007V1.html |
| P/2007 S2 (Lemmon) | Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane : 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude : 249.2083... |
| (Lemmon) | Mount Lemmon Survey |
| P/1991 L3 (Levy) | Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
| P/2006 T1 (Levy) | Levy |
| D/1770 L1 (Lexell) | Lexell Anders Johan Lexell Anders Johan Lexell was a Swedish-born Russian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia where he is known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel .Lexell made important discoveries in polygonometry and celestial mechanics; the latter led to a comet named in... |
| P/1998 Y2 (Li) | Li |
| P/1999 E1 (Li) | Li |
| P/1998 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/1998 Y1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/1999 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/1999 S3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 G2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 D2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 R2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 A1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 A2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 B1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 T5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 F1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 O2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 O3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 R1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 U1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 U2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 W1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2005 Q4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2008 A2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08B18.html |
| P/2008 R3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08T97.html |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2010 A2 P/2010 A2 P/2010 A2 is a small Solar System body that displayed characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, and thus, was initially given a cometary designation. Since it has the orbit of a main-belt asteroid and showed the tail of a comet, it was listed as a main-belt comet... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| P/2010 A5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2010 WK (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2011 J3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR–Catalina) | LINEAR & Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... |
| (LINEAR–Grauer) | LINEAR & Grauer (Mt. Lemmon Sky Survey) |
| P/2004 V5 (LINEAR–Hill) | LINEAR & Hill |
| (LINEAR–Hill) | LINEAR & Hill http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08T95.html |
| (LINEAR–NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| P/2004 R3 (LINEAR–NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT |
| P/2004 T1 (LINEAR–NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT |
| P/2001 R6 (LINEAR–Skiff) | LINEAR & Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
| P/2000 S4 (LINEAR–Spacewatch) | LINEAR & Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... |
| (LONEOS) | LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... |
| P/2000 S3 (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| P/2004 A1 (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| P/2006 Q2 (LONEOS) | LONEOS |
| (LONEOS–Christensen) | LONEOS & Christensen |
| (LONEOS–Hill) | LONEOS & Hill |
| (LONEOS–Tucker) | LONEOS & Tucker Roy A. Tucker Roy A. Tucker is an American astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, identifying at least 404 and co-discovering one, between 1996 and 2009.Tucker was raised in Memphis, Tennessee... |
| P/2010 J3 (McMillan) | McMillan Robert S. McMillan Robert S. McMillan is an astronomer at the University of Arizona, and heads the Spacewatch project, which studies minor planets. He has made various discoveries, including notably 20000 Varuna.... (Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... ) |
| P/2004 R1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2005 J1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2005 K3 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2005 L1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2005 Y2 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2006 G1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2006 H1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2006 K2 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2007 H1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2008 J3 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2008 O2 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2008 Y3 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2009 Q5 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2009 S2 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2009 U4 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2010 J5 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2011 L1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2011 P1 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/2011 Q3 (McNaught) | McNaught |
| P/1994 N2 (McNaught–Hartley) | McNaught & Hartley Malcolm Hartley Malcolm Hartley is an English-born astronomer currently based in Australia, best known for his discovery and co-discovery of 8 comets in the 1980s, among them... |
| P/1994 X1 (McNaught–Russell) | McNaught & Russell |
| P/1917 F1 (Mellish) | Mellish John E. Mellish John Edward Mellish was an American amateur astronomer and telescope builder.John E. Mellish lived outside of Madison Wisconsin... |
| P/1997 G1 (Montani) | Montani |
| P/2001 F1 (NEAT) | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| P/2001 H5 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2001 M10 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2001 Q6 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2001 Q11 (NEAT) | NEAT (Meyer, on archive images) |
| P/2001 T3 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2002 K4 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2003 E1 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2003 F2 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2003 S1 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2003 U3 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2004 F1 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2005 R1 (NEAT) | NEAT |
| P/2002 T6 (NEAT–LINEAR) | NEAT & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
| P/2011 R3 (Novichonok-Gerke) | Novichonok & Gerke |
| (NEAT–LONEOS) | NEAT & LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search ' was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... |
| P/2008 Q2 (Ory) | Ory |
| P/2010 T2 (PANSTARRS) | Pan-STARRS Pan-STARRS The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System is a planned array of astronomical cameras and telescopes and computing facility that will survey the sky on a continual basis, including accurate astrometry and photometry of detected objects... |
| P/2011 P2 (PANSTARRS) | Pan-STARRS |
| P/2011 U1 (PANSTARRS) | Pan-STARRS |
| P/1827 M1 (Pons–Gambart) | Pons Jean-Louis Pons Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer.Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.- Early life :Pons was born at Peyre,... & Gambart |
| P/2005 S3 (Read) | Read (Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... ) |
| P/2005 T3 (Read) | Read |
| D/1918 W1 (Schorr) | Schorr |
| P/2003 L1 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... ) |
| P/2010 C1 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch) |
| P/2010 E5 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch) |
| P/2010 H4 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch) |
| P/2010 H5 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch) |
| P/2011 A2 (Scotti) | Scotti (Spacewatch) |
| D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker–Levy), earlier Shoemaker–Levy 9 | C. Shoemaker, E. Shoemaker & Levy David H. Levy David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:... |
| P/2004 V3 (Siding Spring) | Siding Spring Survey Siding Spring Survey The Siding Spring Survey is a Near-Earth object search program that uses the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia. It is the southern hemisphere counterpart of the Catalina Sky Survey located in the Santa Catalina Mountains on Mt Bigelow, near... |
| (Siding Spring) | Siding Spring Survey |
| P/2006 R1 (Siding Spring) | Siding Spring Survey |
| P/2000 S1 (Skiff) | Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
| P/2004 V1 (Skiff) | Skiff |
| P/2005 S2 (Skiff) | Skiff |
| D/1977 C1 (Skiff-Kosai) | Skiff & Kosai |
| P/1999 R1 = P/2003 R5 = P/2007 R5 P/2007 R5 Comet P/2007 R5 , also designated P/1999 R1 and P/2003 R5, is the first periodic comet to be discovered using the automated telescopes of the SOHO spacecraft.... (SOHO) |
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun, and has discovered over 2100 comets. It began normal operations in May... http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07S16.html |
| P/1999 X3 = P/2004 E2 = P/2008 K10 (SOHO) | SOHO http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08S49.html |
| P/1997 J6 = P/2001 D1 = P/2004 X7 = P/2008 S2 (SOHO) | SOHO http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K09/K09H56.html |
| P/1996 X3 = P/2002 S7 = P/2008 N4 (SOHO) | SOHO http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K09/K09J14.html |
| P/1999 J6 = P/2004 V9 = P/2010 H3 (SOHO) | SOHO http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K10/K10J28.html |
| P/2000 O3 = P/2005 W4 = P/2011 E1 (SOHO) | SOHO http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K11/K11F14.html |
| P/2005 JN (Spacewatch) | Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... |
| P/2006 F4 (Spacewatch) | Spacewatch |
| (Spacewatch) | Spacewatch http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K07/K07B79.html |
| (Spacewatch–Boattini) | Spacewatch & Boattini Andrea Boattini Andrea Boattini is an Italian astronomer, a prolific discoverer of asteroids and comets.After developing a growing interest in minor planets, he graduated in 1996 from the University of Bologna with a thesis on near-Earth objects... |
| (Spacewatch–Hill) | Spacewatch & Hill |
| (Spacewatch–LINEAR) | Spacewatch & LINEAR Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until... |
| (Spacewatch–PANSTARRS) | Spacewatch & Pan-STARRS Pan-STARRS The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System is a planned array of astronomical cameras and telescopes and computing facility that will survey the sky on a continual basis, including accurate astrometry and photometry of detected objects... |
| P/2005 T4 (SWAN) | SWAN instrument of SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun, and has discovered over 2100 comets. It began normal operations in May... satellite (Matson & Mattiazzo) |
| D/1895 Q1 (Swift) | Swift Lewis A. Swift Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle... |
| P/2005 E1 (Tubbiolo) | Tubbiolo |
| P/2010 H2 (Vales) | Vales (Črni Vrh Observatory Crni Vrh Observatory The Črni Vrh Observatory is located in Western Slovenia, close to the settlement Črni Vrh, near the town of Idrija. The current observatory was built in 1985, and is at an altitude of 730 metres... ) |
| P/1942 EA (Väisälä), earlier Väisälä 2 | Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä Yrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology... |
| D/1960 S1 D/1960 S1 D/1960 S1 is a lost short-period comet discovered in 1966 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on eight Palomar plates taken by Tom Gehrels between 24 September and 26 October 1960 as a hazy object of 17th magnitude.... (van Houten) |
C. van Houten Cornelis Johannes van Houten Cornelis Johannes van Houten was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten.Born in The Hague, he spent his entire career at Leiden University except for a brief period as research assistant at Yerkes Observatory... & I. van Houten-Groeneveld Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is a Dutch astronomer.In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was an extremely prolific discoverer of many thousands of asteroids... |
| P/2002 Q1 (Van Ness) | Van Ness |
| P/1937 D1 (Wilk) | Wilk |
| P/2010 B2 (WISE) | WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched on December 14, 2009, and decommissioned/hibernated on February 17, 2011 when its transmitter was turned off... |
| P/2010 D1 (WISE) | WISE |
| P/2010 D2 (WISE) | WISE |
| (WISE) | WISE |
| P/2010 K2 (WISE) | WISE |
| P/2010 N1 (WISE) | WISE |
| P/2010 P4 (WISE) | WISE |
| P/2009 L2 (Yang–Gao) | Yang & Gao Gao Xing Gao Xing is a Chinese amateur astronomer from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. He built Xingming Observatory in 2006 and discovered Comet C/2008 C1 on February 1, 2008 with Chen Tao from Jiangsu and Comet P/2009 L2 on June 15, 2009 with Yang Rui from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. China and hence won the Edgar... |
| P/2007 S1 (Zhao) | Zhaohttp://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08800/08873.html |