Comet LINEAR

The following is a list of periodic and hyperbolic comets discovered, co-discovered and re-discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project (LINEAR), an Earth-based automated sky survey.

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.

Numbered periodic comets

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/PeriodicCodes.html Minor Planet Center Periodic Comet Numbers]
* [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/CometDes.html Converter between old-style and new-style comet names]
* [http://www.cometography.com/periodic_comets.html Cometography.com Periodic Comets]
* [http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/index-periodic.html Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog] (includes a listing of unnumbered periodic comets)
* [http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/comet_data/periodic_comets.html Periodic comets on the Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node]

ee also

*List of non-periodic comets
*Minor Planet Center