Provisional Designations
The total number of new-style designations assigned by the Minor Planet Center (and its predecessors) is 870636. The following table lists the number of new-style minor-planet provisional designations assigned in each year, as well as the number of omitted and deleted designations and the number of designations identified with numbered minor planets, comets and natural satellites. Also given are the number of designations involved in unnumbered identifications (Unn.) and the number of designations that are principal designations (Prin.). Beyond these columns is a half-monthly breakdown of the yearly total of assigned designations. The data are complete through the latest batch of Minor Planet Circulars.This list was last updated on 2010 Jan. 30.
Year Total Removed Identified with Half-monthly breakdown
Omit Del # mps cmts sats Uun. Prin. A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
2010 2114 0 0 0 0 0 231 106 1981 133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 47133 110 8 624 3 0 9252 10397 1198 4591 1579 3492 748 1859 158 2652 460 898 177 251 57 621 491 1497 1861 8954 1167 3784 2893 6533 612 600
2008 66758 184 12 2201 7 0 15565 18239 3356 1281 5225 2202 4113 3401 3595 1756 1022 1083 452 138 137 635 562 1213 3673 7754 4751 9267 2007 3497 1391 4247
2007 60301 152 15 4607 4 0 13657 16036 789 2559 1998 2931 5588 1251 1931 2450 1138 240 949 686 188 272 1228 422 7865 539 11083 3425 8063 1533 1403 1770
2006 76561 255 7 10049 12 0 16006 20958 2668 7111 1735 5456 1873 1383 1384 3860 2047 3629 202 383 31 553 1099 4693 3071 10340 3262 9037 4351 5152 1843 1398
2005 83039 331 39 18590 9 0 15956 21843 2076 1243 2027 91 8281 374 5699 265 4652 357 1350 1378 3144 797 732 4768 1301 7331 4931 13268 3412 5294 2956 7312
2004 58496 291 35 21745 13 0 12192 13002 676 4091 3273 2006 2907 4169 2226 1970 1411 475 795 217 848 388 2943 726 8928 1559 9266 283 3271 321 4816 931
2003 54676 338 40 24002 11 0 9358 12338 2372 2355 661 627 1593 3344 1436 1475 464 932 240 329 335 865 328 3006 695 10845 1491 10426 315 4879 1100 4563
2002 70559 383 90 42143 9 0 9534 14039 5249 813 7913 517 4089 1043 4696 461 3752 410 1588 148 1805 834 4813 3486 7059 1852 9645 1979 3690 779 3017 921
2001 74003 196 29 53326 11 0 6979 10274 1359 2089 1250 2792 696 4932 297 1712 281 1982 498 788 579 2850 1689 8379 3902 8890 6531 5796 3356 2603 6696 4056
2000 72665 97 27 60221 12 1 5403 4815 6457 1319 3753 2958 5216 1856 4702 2650 2362 2115 949 190 746 1748 817 6376 2697 9424 1870 2873 1638 4957 1391 3601
1999 49119 90 22 40380 12 5 3774 2689 992 890 4004 244 385 2441 1600 332 3472 537 929 61 1636 145 228 95 6493 720 8420 1628 5793 693 6636 745
1998 32440 70 33 28915 6 5 1750 953 299 1259 144 970 569 3742 329 3978 135 1730 113 1245 50 392 46 2800 2035 4429 967 1271 1432 1156 2502 847
1997 12288 32 0 10314 1 0 984 358 641 250 774 23 1506 132 1137 461 487 114 463 311 303 83 165 132 338 894 764 688 239 1471 366 546
1996 10314 31 2 7953 0 0 1058 313 519 469 242 198 412 629 543 682 424 253 151 49 144 80 249 98 855 230 1743 152 1053 97 944 98
1995 10927 20 1 7064 0 0 1612 614 130 431 279 357 244 541 252 143 56 152 34 216 40 469 38 431 37 2257 322 2098 486 1112 133 669
1994 6369 7 2 5258 0 2 541 170 436 150 523 24 246 29 302 45 249 5 267 1 333 4 1015 26 749 338 448 331 225 344 160 119
1993 7093 30 1 6349 1 0 334 90 22 401 60 99 24 2144 44 267 42 95 60 46 67 372 236 284 531 424 1226 257 214 24 87 67
1992 4913 22 9 4400 1 0 117 28 180 158 223 355 944 110 231 190 137 28 86 18 19 285 176 80 195 692 58 280 18 264 37 149
1991 5505 41 4 4901 2 0 76 23 124 121 171 72 239 182 376 133 188 85 186 2 248 56 824 13 1073 144 427 135 441 16 181 68
1990 4962 23 16 4349 1 0 33 10 32 162 25 247 282 146 42 188 55 100 7 55 0 156 14 501 466 764 418 374 413 416 56 43
1989 3420 28 1 3095 1 2 19 4 266 60 245 12 316 33 226 8 23 19 38 17 51 39 52 37 155 378 480 259 168 197 93 248
1988 2523 20 6 2203 1 2 11 3 147 144 199 140 78 95 77 27 73 44 24 9 35 22 131 42 370 126 135 51 362 13 152 27
1987 2782 20 1 2338 0 1 9 2 24 99 18 181 31 50 39 71 11 138 6 48 29 47 13 327 171 792 29 255 55 148 35 165
1986 2775 10 2 2225 4 3 4 1 79 0 65 2 149 6 79 33 49 19 50 2 35 21 179 153 454 83 485 119 245 282 149 37
1985 1821 13 1 1518 0 0 3 2 8 61 69 122 13 83 51 47 65 32 5 7 5 36 77 176 170 185 102 178 159 21 84 65
1984 1518 1 0 1347 1 1 4 0 40 197 41 87 59 62 32 70 69 33 17 22 5 14 9 50 13 217 4 140 1 142 5 189
1983 1622 30 0 1230 2 0 7 4 169 21 225 22 113 24 74 53 50 3 28 0 29 16 67 43 244 21 71 37 193 39 52 28
1982 2711 24 3 2280 1 0 6 1 15 394 5 185 9 108 10 86 128 115 4 22 3 38 46 106 92 337 90 310 331 15 126 136
1981 3804 10 6 3509 2 0 31 23 106 25 44 103 1245 39 46 5 172 45 13 6 43 18 22 126 196 235 118 755 78 236 65 63
1980 2117 2 2 1967 0 0 6 2 10 164 21 157 57 309 50 6 27 62 33 12 20 12 125 5 216 22 394 52 118 136 87 22
1979 2668 5 3 2404 0 0 12 3 3 76 2 29 13 111 20 175 12 42 0 247 5 427 12 259 40 384 71 129 90 215 51 255
1978 3229 5 3 2926 1 0 30 1 11 8 20 2 272 3 135 1 101 2 26 0 212 19 134 92 435 207 247 223 427 549 48 55
1977 2378 7 2 2092 2 0 20 0 77 27 85 290 231 91 31 37 29 54 45 1 19 26 64 143 515 95 215 140 67 0 92 4
1976 1910 10 3 1773 1 0 8 0 11 0 1 34 26 8 224 30 280 82 1 16 16 34 10 68 1 288 2 543 1 30 0 204
1975 1330 13 2 1223 1 1 0 0 30 48 11 5 162 26 41 13 16 0 36 1 48 0 20 17 66 55 184 30 265 54 187 15
1974 916 2 2 838 0 0 2 0 0 0 40 66 20 53 1 94 2 18 7 19 2 58 12 95 55 135 49 17 86 40 29 18
1973 868 21 0 768 1 0 0 0 125 5 13 20 17 62 36 1 4 5 3 1 1 1 2 57 8 174 26 157 22 14 0 114
1972 895 3 0 853 0 0 1 0 20 22 7 1 16 11 57 43 44 14 38 1 26 5 3 17 107 1 280 10 56 2 70 44
1971 814 14 0 720 1 0 0 0 2 106 7 58 1 35 12 25 4 30 7 11 4 50 1 91 4 110 87 118 30 3 5 13
1970 554 0 3 485 0 1 0 0 37 4 20 2 97 12 69 14 20 11 17 4 13 11 29 43 22 42 8 3 5 40 10 21
1969 728 1 1 656 0 0 1 0 33 8 2 11 56 15 4 7 20 10 10 13 2 35 28 23 68 5 207 73 88 0 10 0
1968 386 0 1 320 0 0 0 0 7 15 4 30 0 27 0 40 0 21 0 4 0 39 2 56 2 12 15 94 0 9 4 5
1967 238 0 0 165 1 0 0 0 5 0 14 3 40 1 38 2 24 7 2 1 7 0 10 0 35 6 16 22 2 0 3 0
1966 319 0 2 224 0 0 0 0 1 26 26 23 2 22 3 20 4 9 5 5 0 2 32 22 16 4 18 31 19 13 8 8
1965 255 0 0 225 0 0 0 0 40 4 9 6 1 2 5 2 11 0 2 5 1 10 4 7 1 25 3 64 11 24 3 15
1964 351 1 1 318 0 1 0 0 0 8 11 8 22 10 4 3 9 1 3 0 1 0 18 3 14 0 71 19 78 39 15 14
1963 194 0 1 178 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 11 6 5 0 12 1 7 2 1 5 6 10 30 36 21 15 6 1 4
1962 329 4 1 312 0 0 0 0 6 7 32 4 8 1 7 10 24 3 1 2 2 4 18 13 15 19 15 10 10 64 47 7
1961 257 4 0 206 0 0 0 0 16 5 32 14 9 6 11 1 10 2 3 1 0 2 6 1 3 0 52 20 29 7 26 1
1960 166 0 1 112 1 0 9 5 0 6 3 6 7 11 2 5 1 3 1 5 0 9 2 6 2 33 3 10 11 35 4 1
1959 291 0 2 262 0 0 0 0 4 0 33 0 32 1 28 0 20 0 14 1 19 7 9 4 33 18 23 17 12 6 10 0
1958 274 0 3 257 0 0 0 0 10 12 2 37 0 14 24 13 3 1 3 0 0 4 6 5 17 1 43 16 31 3 29 0
1957 418 0 4 289 0 0 0 0 11 38 7 8 15 9 4 28 31 20 17 12 5 32 2 17 0 13 14 41 3 59 6 26
1956 302 0 1 173 0 0 0 0 34 2 6 4 43 1 23 3 7 5 6 0 6 1 11 2 24 10 30 19 16 6 25 18
1955 599 0 8 409 0 0 0 0 2 35 7 24 17 59 6 28 0 16 4 36 3 12 3 50 40 80 29 50 35 12 38 13
1954 561 1 1 373 1 0 1 0 17 9 19 8 29 7 17 13 23 18 12 24 28 24 20 30 28 43 37 88 0 34 16 17
1953 739 0 3 531 0 0 1 0 18 6 20 10 59 51 58 3 19 6 10 2 15 18 39 22 62 18 101 35 102 2 50 13
1952 653 0 4 525 0 0 0 0 0 64 4 93 2 41 1 112 16 39 6 22 2 35 10 38 23 47 12 53 12 10 1 10
1951 736 0 0 624 0 0 0 0 52 4 60 11 77 4 39 3 29 29 26 15 17 12 19 15 54 24 24 27 10 74 38 73
1950 678 2 7 525 1 2 0 0 7 49 24 41 24 21 7 40 22 12 38 9 44 17 29 35 43 23 120 14 17 8 30 4
1949 563 1 26 456 0 0 0 0 4 20 17 11 10 44 20 44 11 32 0 24 3 43 25 67 3 48 10 39 1 41 14 32
1948 412 1 21 289 0 0 0 0 11 7 7 5 36 5 13 3 18 9 12 11 10 10 37 20 45 10 64 14 20 19 18 8
1947 170 0 4 111 0 0 0 0 3 15 8 3 3 14 10 7 2 9 18 1 11 8 2 9 10 5 5 11 3 4 9 0
1946 104 2 9 61 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 6 5 3 3 3 3 3 5 11 0 7 0 15 5 19 0 7 0 3
1945 74 0 24 39 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 5 1 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 8 16 1 6 4 9 4 1 0
1944 81 0 9 60 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 15 0 5 0 3 0 5 1 6 0 9 0 13 11 4 0 1 0 0 0 1
1943 180 0 11 129 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 14 35 7 29 0 2 0 3 7 0 9 6 7 3 7 15 9 11 3 3 5
1942 305 1 16 227 1 0 0 0 7 13 12 13 41 20 30 12 12 4 11 0 3 5 12 5 36 0 11 1 28 1 25 3
1941 291 0 27 191 1 0 0 0 1 27 9 17 3 38 0 19 3 7 0 8 0 6 0 7 1 68 0 27 4 33 5 8
1940 257 0 13 155 1 0 0 0 19 5 16 1 19 7 33 4 5 2 16 1 6 2 7 14 28 9 15 6 0 17 6 19
1939 291 0 11 192 2 1 0 0 3 23 34 14 14 26 22 11 6 8 9 2 4 1 16 5 17 8 16 20 15 1 12 4
1938 376 0 8 279 0 0 0 0 9 14 20 69 35 19 13 7 4 5 2 6 1 8 3 16 6 41 5 46 3 22 8 14
1937 279 0 2 196 0 0 0 0 30 10 14 1 7 3 16 0 17 8 20 0 27 3 10 8 21 1 21 11 18 18 4 11
1936 331 1 2 250 0 0 0 0 5 7 5 17 2 53 3 15 2 16 10 11 8 16 18 42 18 16 11 14 10 12 9 11
1935 350 0 2 280 0 1 0 0 1 13 28 13 24 24 15 9 13 12 1 12 6 12 7 36 10 60 10 26 2 5 0 11
1934 313 0 2 249 0 0 0 0 10 3 40 2 9 20 24 9 15 3 16 0 32 4 28 3 33 6 14 3 25 2 11 1
1933 340 0 1 260 0 0 0 0 0 27 1 13 0 53 7 14 2 3 2 4 2 21 1 41 10 44 3 53 7 20 9 3
1932 243 0 2 163 0 0 0 0 7 17 38 5 33 8 3 19 5 9 3 3 10 3 10 1 15 6 3 4 5 16 0 20
1931 441 1 2 348 1 0 0 0 32 17 10 26 16 19 14 8 20 13 5 9 0 5 8 3 35 1 117 18 38 2 24 1
1930 348 0 5 251 0 1 0 0 8 11 1 29 6 26 13 19 4 21 2 19 1 14 4 25 5 33 3 34 11 12 21 26
1929 328 0 17 253 0 3 0 0 12 7 36 4 12 2 6 0 12 1 9 1 8 1 15 12 38 19 30 18 24 33 23 5
1928 190 0 6 135 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 35 0 20 1 11 3 5 1 0 2 3 5 16 25 19 12 6 4 5 8 1
1927 145 0 9 95 0 0 0 0 5 16 21 4 5 5 0 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 1 12 7 18 10 14 3 4 0 4
1926 152 0 4 90 0 0 0 0 12 1 6 0 8 11 31 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 8 6 19 4 15 1 11 3 8 2
1925 106 0 1 66 1 0 0 0 4 6 1 7 1 4 3 4 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 9 12 6 6 2 12 11 6 1
1924 105 0 7 66 0 1 0 0 2 10 4 3 16 2 6 1 3 3 2 1 6 4 3 1 7 4 4 1 1 11 5 5
1923 50 0 1 37 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 16 0 3 3 5 2 2 2
1922 37 0 1 20 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 5 2 0 2 3 3 0
1921 53 0 1 27 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 10 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 3 6 8 1 6 1 0
1920 32 0 1 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 9 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0
1919 38 0 4 23 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 3 2 8 0 5 0 1 1 0
1918 41 0 2 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 12 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 6 0 1 2 0 3 1 1
1917 80 0 4 64 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 0 2 2 1 1 6 1 1 0 1 1 3 1 17 9 8 2 0 5 3
1916 94 0 2 74 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 0 5 7 3 1 5 2 2 4 7 3 4 1 3 0 17 1 11 0 6
1915 82 0 5 61 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 2 0 6 4 3 5 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 14 1 14 1 5 8 3 0
1914 55 0 2 29 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 5 10 5 6 6 1 6
1913 70 0 3 39 0 0 0 0 5 0 7 2 7 0 3 4 2 1 6 7 1 2 0 2 3 3 2 6 3 1 0 3
1912 73 0 3 40 0 0 0 0 5 4 3 1 2 2 6 8 4 1 3 1 2 0 1 1 3 0 5 0 15 2 2 2
1911 59 0 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 0 6 0 6 0 9 0 2 0 9 1 0 1 10 3 2 0 0
1910 39 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 2 1 10 1 3 1 2 1 5 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 0
1909 64 0 2 57 0 0 0 0 3 13 1 10 2 0 9 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 4 2 1 1 1
1908 91 0 5 71 0 0 0 0 11 8 4 3 4 4 2 3 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 5 0 6 6 8 2 6 1 11
1907 92 0 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 8 2 22 1 6 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 6 1 9 6 17 2 3 0
1906 102 0 5 86 0 0 0 0 2 11 0 5 2 8 2 4 1 1 0 2 0 3 1 6 4 7 2 9 11 3 3 15
1905 61 0 1 56 0 0 0 0 3 3 9 0 1 2 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 5 0 16 8 2 1 1
1904 45 0 3 36 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 4 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 6 7 2 3 5 0 1 0
1903 38 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 6 1 7 3 1 1 0
1902 50 0 3 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 0 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 5 10 1 8 0 4
1901 29 0 2 22 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 1 8 0 2 0
1900 26 0 5 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 1 2 0 2
1899 45 0 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 3 5 1 9 6 10 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
1898 9 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0
1897 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1896 7 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
1895 9 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
1894 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
1893 13 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
1892 12 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1891 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1
1890 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1887 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1881 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1880 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1878 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
1874 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
1873 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1869 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P-L 2369 0 0 2230 0 0 59 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2084 0 285 0 0 0 0
T-1 746 0 0 739 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 706 0 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T-2 1396 0 0 1322 0 0 45 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1396 0 0 0 0 0 0
T-3 1430 0 0 1279 0 0 82 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 1413 0 0 0 0
Totals 873597 2961 772 411448 145 35124847147539 33241 34006 37710 27911 43740 36442 32989 27137 24542 16428 10234 7289 11643 13004 19238 41768 58156 86698 73263 73839 46951 44108 38299 34961
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
Designations can be deleted for a number of reasons (non-existence of reported
object, identity with star or galaxy, etc.). Omitted designations are
designations assigned and deleted before publication.
