Correspondences Of Old- And New-Style Comet Designations
Due to circumstances beyond our control, this script is off-line until further notice. The following form allow one to find the new-style comet designation for the specified old-style designation, or vice versa, or to find the name of a specific comet. Details on the new-style comet designation system are available.Examples of valid search strings are given below.
Comet Designation Conversion
Examples Of Valid Designations
A wide range of comet designations may be entered (see examples below, noting the case and formatting of the input).Searching For New-Style Designations: Periodic comet numbers 1P 20D 114P Designations C/1994 N1 P/1987 Q3 1995 A1 Mixture 1P/1066 G1 1P/Halley Searching For Old-Style Designations: Roman numerals 1986 XIV 1881 III Letter designations 1909c 1987a1If only a year is entered, the output will generally be all the Roman numeral designations (1994 and earlier) and new-style designations (1995 and subsequent) of the year specified.
Searching For Names: Complete names Mueller 1 Levy-Rudenko Partial names Shoemaker Mueller(The first partial name would pick up all the Shoemaker, Shoemaker-Holt, Shoemaker-Levy, etc., comets, while the second would pick up all Mueller's long period and periodic comets.)
If you are uncertain as to whether a new-style designation begins with `P/', `C/' or `D/', it is preferable to omit this prefix. However, entering a P/ designation for a D/ comet will work.
When searching for names, only complete words will be matched. Thus to find all the comets named `Mueller', one must type `Mueller' in full-- `Muel' will not match any comets. As the search is case-sensitive, entering `MUELLER' or `mueller' will also fail to match any comets.
