Comet Catalog in order of Number of Periodic Comets

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Updated on May 4, 2013

In order of: ( ) Day of Perihelion ( ) Day of Perihelion (on earth) ( ) Designation ( ) Designation (on earth) (*) Number of Periodic Comets [What's New] Numbered periodic comets Not numbered periodic comets Comet-like asteroids Observable comet now Not observable comet now Returning but not yet observed comet Comet not observed at last return or diminished comet Search:

Numbered periodic comets 1P Halley 2P Encke 3D Biela 4P Faye 5D Brorsen 6P d'Arrest 7P Pons-Winnecke 8P Tuttle 9P Tempel 1 10P Tempel 2 11P Tempel-Swift-LINEAR 12P Pons-Brooks 13P Olbers 14P Wolf 15P Finlay 16P Brooks 2 17P Holmes 18D Perrine-Mrkos 19P Borrelly 20D Westphal 21P Giacobini-Zinner 22P Kopff 23P Brorsen-Metcalf 24P Schaumasse 25D Neujmin 2 26P Grigg-Skjellerup 27P Crommelin 28P Neujmin 1 29P Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 30P Reinmuth 1 31P Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 32P Comas Sola 33P Daniel 34D Gale 35P Herschel-Rigollet 36P Whipple 37P Forbes 38P Stephan-Oterma 39P Oterma 40P Vaisala 1 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak 42P Neujmin 3 43P Wolf-Harrington 44P Reinmuth 2 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova 46P Wirtanen 47P Ashbrook-Jackson 48P Johnson 49P Arend-Rigaux 50P Arend 51P Harrington 52P Harrington-Abell 53P Van Biesbroeck 54P de Vico-Swift-NEAT 55P Tempel-Tuttle 56P Slaughter-Burnham 57P du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte 58P Jackson-Neujmin 59P Kearns-Kwee 60P Tsuchinshan 2 61P Shajn-Schaldach 62P Tsuchinshan 1 63P Wild 1 64P Swift-Gehrels 65P Gunn 66P du Toit 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko 68P Klemola 69P Taylor 70P Kojima 71P Clark 72D Denning-Fujikawa 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 74P Smirnova-Chernykh 75D Kohoutek 76P West-Kohoutek-Ikemura 77P Longmore 78P Gehrels 2 79P du Toit-Hartley 80P Peters-Hartley 81P Wild 2 82P Gehrels 3 83D Russell 1 84P Giclas 85P Boethin 86P Wild 3 87P Bus 88P Howell 89P Russell 2 90P Gehrels 1 91P Russell 3 92P Sanguin 93P Lovas 1 94P Russell 4 95P/(2060) Chiron 96P Machholz 1 97P Metcalf-Brewington 98P Takamizawa 99P Kowal 1 100P Hartley 1 101P Chernykh 102P Shoemaker 1 103P Hartley 2 104P Kowal 2 105P Singer Brewster 106P Schuster 107P/(4015) Wilson-Harrington 108P Ciffreo 109P Swift-Tuttle 110P Hartley 3 111P Helin-Roman-Crockett 112P Urata-Niijima 113P Spitaler 114P Wiseman-Skiff 115P Maury 116P Wild 4 117P Helin-Roman-Alu 1 118P Shoemaker-Levy 4 119P Parker-Hartley 120P Mueller 1 121P Shoemaker-Holt 2 122P de Vico 123P West-Hartley 124P Mrkos 125P Spacewatch 126P IRAS 127P Holt-Olmstead 128P Shoemaker-Holt 1 129P Shoemaker-Levy 3 130P McNaught-Hughes 131P Mueller 2 132P Helin-Roman-Alu 2 133P/(7968) Elst-Pizarro 134P Kowal-Vavrova 135P Shoemaker-Levy 8 136P Mueller 3 137P Shoemaker-Levy 2 138P Shoemaker-Levy 7 139P Vaisala-Oterma 140P Bowell-Skiff 141P Machholz 2 142P Ge-Wang 143P Kowal-Mrkos 144P Kushida 145P Shoemaker-Levy 5 146P Shoemaker-LINEAR 147P Kushida-Muramatsu 148P Anderson-LINEAR 149P Mueller 4 150P LONEOS 151P Helin 152P Helin-Lawrence 153P Ikeya-Zhang 154P Brewington 155P Shoemaker 3 156P Russell-LINEAR 157P Tritton 158P Kowal-LINEAR 159P LONEOS 160P LINEAR 161P Hartley-IRAS 162P Siding Spring 163P NEAT 164P Christensen 165P LINEAR 166P NEAT 167P CINEOS 168P Hergenrother 169P NEAT 170P Christensen 171P Spahr 172P Yeung 173P Mueller 5 174P/(60558) Echeclus 175P Hergenrother 176P/(118401) LINEAR 177P Barnard 2 178P Hug-Bell 179P Jedicke 180P NEAT 181P Shoemaker-Levy 6 182P LONEOS 183P Korlevic-Juric 184P Lovas 2 185P Petriew 186P Garradd 187P LINEAR 188P LINEAR-Mueller 189P NEAT 190P Mueller 191P McNaught 192P Shoemaker-Levy 1 193P LINEAR-NEAT 194P LINEAR 195P Hill 196P Tichy 197P LINEAR 198P ODAS 199P Shoemaker 4 200P Larsen 201P LONEOS 202P Scotti 203P Korlevic 204P LINEAR-NEAT 205P Giacobini 206P Barnard-Boattini 207P NEAT 208P McMillan 209P LINEAR 210P Christensen 211P Hill 212P NEAT 213P Van Ness 214P LINEAR 215P NEAT 216P LINEAR 217P LINEAR 218P LINEAR 219P LINEAR 220P McNaught 221P LINEAR 222P LINEAR 223P Skiff 224P LINEAR-NEAT 225P LINEAR 226P Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski 227P Catalina-LINEAR 228P LINEAR 229P Gibbs 230P LINEAR 231P LINEAR-NEAT 232P Hill 233P La Sagra 234P LINEAR 235P LINEAR 236P LINEAR 237P LINEAR 238P Read 239P LINEAR 240P NEAT 241P LINEAR 242P Spahr 243P NEAT 244P Scotti 245P WISE 246P NEAT 247P LINEAR 248P Gibbs 249P LINEAR 250P Larson 251P LINEAR 252P LINEAR 253P PanSTARRS 254P McNaught 255P Levy 256P LINEAR 257P Catalina 258P PanSTARRS 259P Garradd 260P McNaught 261P Larson 262P McNaught-Russell 263P Gibbs 264P Larsen 265P LINEAR 266P Christensen 267P LONEOS 268P Bernardi 269P Jedicke 270P Gehrels 271P van Houten-Lemmon 272P NEAT 273P Pons-Gambart 274P Tombaugh-Tenagra 275P Hermann 276P Vorobjov 277P LINEAR 278P McNaught 279P La Sagra 280P Larsen 281P MOSS 282P Spacewatch 283P McNaught

Not numbered periodic comets C/1337 M1 = C/1468 S1 C/1337 M1 = C/1468 S1 D/1766 G1 Helfenzrieder D/1770 L1 Lexell D/1819 W1 Blanpain C/1840 U1 Bremiker C/1855 L1 Donati C/1857 O1 Peters C/1861 J1 Great comet C/1884 A1 Ross D/1884 O1 Barnard 1 D/1886 K1 Brooks 1 D/1894 F1 Denning D/1895 Q1 Swift C/1905 F1 Giacobini C/1907 G1 Grigg-Mellish C/1917 F1 Mellish D/1918 W1 Schorr C/1921 H1 Dubiago C/1937 D1 Wilk C/1942 EA Vaisala 2 D/1952 B1 Harrington-Wilson D/1977 C1 Skiff-Kosai D/1978 R1 Haneda-Campos C/1984 A1 Bradfield 1 C/1989 A3 Bradfield 2 C/1991 L3 Levy D/1993 F2 Shoemaker-Levy 9 C/1993 Y1 McNaught-Russell P/1994 N2 McNaught-Hartley P/1996 R2 Lagerkvist C/1996 V2 = C/2002 V5 SOHO C/1996 X3 = C/2002 N2 SOHO C/1996 X3 = C/2002 S7 = C/2008 N4 SOHO C/1996 X5 = C/2002 S5 SOHO P/1997 B1 Kobayashi C/1997 B5 SOHO P/1997 G1 Montani C/1997 J6 = C/2001 D1 = C/2004 X7 = C/2008 S2 SOHO P/1997 T3 Lagerkvist-Carsenty C/1998 A2 SOHO C/1998 G1 LINEAR P/1998 QP54 LONEOS-Tucker P/1998 U3 Jager P/1998 VS24 LINEAR C/1998 Y1 LINEAR P/1998 Y2 Li C/1999 E1 Li C/1999 G1 LINEAR P/1999 J6 = P/2004 V9 = P/2010 H3 SOHO C/1999 M3 = C/2004 L10 SOHO C/1999 N5 = C/2005 E4 SOHO C/1999 N5 = C/2005 G2 SOHO C/1999 N6 = C/2004 J4 = C/2009 L8 SOHO C/1999 P6 SOHO P/1999 R1 = P/2003 R5 = P/2007 R5 SOHO P/1999 RO28 LONEOS C/1999 S3 LINEAR C/1999 U2 = C/2005 W5 SOHO P/1999 V1 Catalina C/1999 X3 = C/2004 E2 = C/2008 K10 SOHO C/1999 XS87 LINEAR P/1999 XN120 Catalina C/2000 C4 = C/2005 W1 SOHO C/2000 D2 LINEAR C/2000 G2 LINEAR P/2000 O3 = P/2005 W4 = P/2011 E1 SOHO P/2000 QJ46 LINEAR P/2000 R2 LINEAR P/2000 S1 Skiff C/2000 S3 LONEOS P/2000 S4 LINEAR-Spacewatch P/2001 BB50 LINEAR-NEAT P/2001 F1 NEAT P/2001 H5 NEAT C/2001 M10 NEAT C/2001 OG108 LONEOS P/2001 Q6 NEAT C/2001 Q7 SOHO P/2001 Q11 NEAT P/2001 R6 LINEAR-Skiff C/2001 R8 SOHO P/2001 T3 NEAT C/2001 W2 BATTeRS C/2002 A1 LINEAR C/2002 A2 LINEAR P/2002 AR2 LINEAR C/2002 B1 LINEAR C/2002 CE10 LINEAR P/2002 EJ57 LINEAR C/2002 K4 NEAT P/2002 Q1 Van Ness C/2002 Q8 = C/2008 E4 SOHO C/2002 R1 = C/2008 A3 SOHO C/2002 R4 = C/2007 Y4 SOHO C/2002 R5 = C/2008 L6 SOHO C/2002 S4 = C/2008 R7 SOHO C/2002 S11 = C/2008 G6 SOHO P/2002 T5 LINEAR P/2002 T6 NEAT-LINEAR C/2003 E1 NEAT C/2003 F1 LINEAR P/2003 F2 NEAT P/2003 L1 Scotti P/2003 O3 LINEAR C/2003 Q1 = C/2008 X6 SOHO C/2003 Q6 = C/2008 Y11 SOHO P/2003 QX29 NEAT C/2003 R1 LINEAR P/2003 S1 NEAT P/2003 SQ215 NEAT-LONEOS P/2003 T12 = P/2012 A3 SOHO C/2003 U1 LINEAR P/2003 U2 LINEAR P/2003 U3 NEAT C/2003 W1 LINEAR P/2003 WC7 LINEAR-Catalina P/2004 A1 LONEOS C/2004 A3 SOHO C/2004 C1 Larsen P/2004 DO29 Spacewatch-LINEAR P/2004 FY140 LINEAR P/2004 R1 McNaught P/2004 R3 LINEAR-NEAT P/2004 T1 LINEAR-NEAT P/2004 V1 Skiff P/2004 V3 Siding Spring P/2004 V5 LINEAR-Hill P/2004 VR8 LONEOS C/2004 W10 SOHO P/2004 WR9 LINEAR P/2005 E1 Tubbiolo P/2005 GF8 LONEOS P/2005 J1 McNaught P/2005 JN Spacewatch P/2005 JQ5 Catalina P/2005 JD108 Catalina-NEAT P/2005 L1 McNaught P/2005 L4 Christensen C/2005 N5 Catalina C/2005 O2 Christensen P/2005 Q4 LINEAR P/2005 R1 NEAT P/2005 RV25 LONEOS-Christensen P/2005 S2 Skiff P/2005 S3 Read P/2005 SB216 LONEOS P/2005 T2 Christensen P/2005 T3 Read P/2005 T4 SWAN P/2005 T5 Broughton C/2005 W2 Christensen P/2005 W3 Kowalski P/2005 XA54 LONEOS-Hill P/2005 Y2 McNaught P/2006 D1 Hill C/2006 E2 SOHO P/2006 F1 Kowalski C/2006 F2 Christensen P/2006 F4 Spacewatch P/2006 G1 McNaught P/2006 H1 McNaught P/2006 HR30 Siding Spring P/2006 R1 Siding Spring P/2006 R2 Christensen P/2006 S1 Christensen P/2006 S4 Christensen P/2006 S6 Hill C/2006 U7 Gibbs P/(300163) 2006 VW139 P/2006 VW139 P/2006 W1 Gibbs P/2006 XG16 Spacewatch P/2007 A2 Christensen P/2007 B1 Christensen P/2007 C1 Christensen P/2007 C2 Catalina P/2007 H3 Garradd P/2007 K2 Gibbs P/2007 Q2 Gilmore P/2007 R1 Larson P/2007 R2 Gibbs P/2007 R3 Gibbs P/2007 R4 Garradd P/2007 S1 Zhao C/2007 S2 Lemmon P/2007 T2 Kowalski P/2007 T4 Gibbs P/2007 T6 Catalina P/2007 V1 Larson P/2007 V2 Hill P/2007 VQ11 Catalina P/2008 A2 LINEAR P/2008 CL94 Lemmon C/2008 E1 Catalina P/2008 J2 Beshore P/2008 J3 McNaught P/2008 L2 Hill P/2008 O2 McNaught P/2008 O3 Boattini P/2008 Q2 Ory P/2008 QP20 LINEAR-Hill C/2008 R3 LINEAR P/2008 S1 Catalina-McNaught P/2008 T1 Boattini P/2008 T4 Hill P/2008 WZ96 LINEAR P/2008 Y1 Boattini P/2008 Y2 Gibbs P/2008 Y3 McNaught P/2009 B1 Boattini C/2009 J12 SOHO P/2009 K1 Gibbs P/2009 L2 Yang-Gao P/2009 O3 Hill P/2009 Q1 Hill P/2009 Q4 Boattini P/2009 Q5 McNaught P/2009 S2 McNaught P/2009 SK280 Spacewatch-Hill P/2009 T2 La Sagra P/2009 U4 McNaught C/2009 U10 SOHO P/2009 WX51 Catalina P/2009 Y2 Kowalski C/2009 Y10 SOHO P/2010 A1 Hill P/2010 A2 LINEAR P/2010 A3 Hill P/2010 A5 LINEAR P/2010 B2 WISE P/2010 C1 Scotti P/2010 D1 WISE P/2010 D2 WISE P/2010 E2 Jarnac C/2010 E5 Scotti P/2010 H2 Vales P/2010 H4 Scotti P/2010 H5 Scotti P/2010 J3 McMillan P/2010 J5 McNaught P/2010 JC81 WISE P/2010 K2 WISE C/2010 L5 WISE P/2010 N1 WISE P/2010 P4 WISE P/2010 R2 La Sagra P/2010 T2 PanSTARRS P/2010 TO20 LINEAR-Grauer P/2010 U1 Boattini P/2010 U2 Hill P/2010 UH55 Spacewatch P/2010 V1 Ikeya-Murakami P/2010 WK LINEAR P/2011 A2 Scotti P/2011 C2 Gibbs P/2011 FR143 Lemmon C/2011 J3 LINEAR P/2011 JB15 Spacewatch-Boattini C/2011 L1 McNaught P/2011 N1 ASH P/2011 NO1 Elenin P/2011 P1 McNaught C/2011 P2 PanSTARRS P/2011 Q3 McNaught P/2011 R3 Novichonok-Gerke P/2011 S1 Gibbs C/2011 S2 Kowalski P/2011 U1 PanSTARRS P/2011 U2 Bressi P/2011 UA134 Spacewatch-PanSTARRS P/2011 V1 Boattini P/2011 VJ5 Lemmon P/2011 W1 PanSTARRS P/2011 W2 Rinner P/2011 Y2 Boattini C/2011 Y3 Boattini P/2012 B1 PanSTARRS C/2012 BJ98 Lemmon P/2012 C3 PanSTARRS P/2012 F2 PanSTARRS P/2012 F5 Gibbs P/2012 G1 PanSTARRS C/2012 H2 McNaught P/2012 K3 Gibbs P/2012 NJ La Sagra P/2012 O1 McNaught P/2012 O2 McNaught P/2012 O3 McNaught C/2012 Q1 Kowalski P/2012 S2 La Sagra P/2012 SB6 Lemmon P/2012 T1 PanSTARRS P/2012 T2 PanSTARRS P/2012 T3 PanSTARRS C/2012 T6 Kowalski P/2012 TK8 Tenagra P/2012 U2 PanSTARRS P/2012 US27 Siding Spring P/2012 WA34 Lemmon-PanSTARRS C/2012 Y3 McNaught P/2013 A2 Scotti P/2013 AL76 Catalina C/2013 C2 Tenagra C/2013 D1 Holvorcem P/2013 G1 Kowalski P/2013 G4 PanSTARRS C/2013 H2 Boattini

Comet-like asteroids (596) Scheila (944) Hidalgo 95P/(2060) Chiron (3200) Phaethon (3552) Don Quixote 107P/(4015) Wilson-Harrington (5145) Pholus (5335) Damocles (7066) Nessus 133P/(7968) Elst-Pizarro (8405) Asbolus (10199) Chariklo (10370) Hylonome (15504) 1999 RG33 (20461) Dioretsa (29981) 1999 TD10 (32532) Thereus (37117) Narcissus (52872) Okyrhoe 174P/(60558) Echeclus (65407) 2002 RP120 (87269) 2000 OO67 176P/(118401) LINEAR (144908) 2004 YH32 (154783) 2004 PA44 (196256) 2003 EH1 P/(300163) 2006 VW139 P/2006 VW139 (301964) 2000 EJ37 (306173) 2010 NK83 (308607) 2005 WY3 (308933) 2006 SQ372 (315898) 2008 QD4 (330759) 2008 SO218 (336756) 2010 NV1 (342842) 2008 YB3 1995 SN55 1995 SN55 1996 PW 1996 PW 1997 MD10 1997 MD10 1998 HO121 1998 HO121 1998 QJ1 1998 QJ1 1998 WU24 1998 WU24 1999 LE31 1999 LE31 1999 XS35 1999 XS35 2000 AB229 2000 AB229 2000 DG8 2000 DG8 2000 HE46 2000 HE46 2000 KP65 2000 KP65 2001 QF6 2001 QF6 2001 YK61 2001 YK61 2002 PD43 2002 PD43 2002 RN109 2002 RN109 2003 CC22 2003 CC22 2003 UY283 2003 UY283 2003 WG166 2003 WG166 2003 WN188 2003 WN188 2004 AE9 2004 AE9 2004 CM111 2004 CM111 2004 DA62 2004 DA62 2004 NN8 2004 NN8 2004 RW141 2004 RW141 2005 CR16 2005 CR16 2005 HL3 2005 HL3 2005 HC4 2005 HC4 2005 NP82 2005 NP82 2005 OE 2005 OE 2005 SB223 2005 SB223 2005 TJ50 2005 TJ50 2005 VD 2005 VD 2005 VX3 2005 VX3 2006 BZ8 2006 BZ8 2006 EX52 2006 EX52 2006 FV4 2006 FV4 2006 HY51 2006 HY51 2006 JG57 2006 JG57 2006 LM1 2006 LM1 2006 RG1 2006 RG1 2006 RJ2 2006 RJ2 2006 RB117 2006 RB117 2006 SO134 2006 SO134 2007 DA61 2007 DA61 2007 HU45 2007 HU45 2007 SA24 2007 SA24 2007 VA85 2007 VA85 2007 VW266 2007 VW266 2008 BN18 2008 BN18 2008 FF5 2008 FF5 2008 HE 2008 HE 2008 HW1 2008 HW1 2008 HY21 2008 HY21 2008 JS14 2008 JS14 2008 SE82 2008 SE82 2008 WT11 2008 WT11 2008 WA95 2008 WA95 2009 AU16 2009 AU16 2009 BL80 2009 BL80 2009 DP2 2009 DP2 2009 DL26 2009 DL26 2009 DD47 2009 DD47 2009 FW23 2009 FW23 2009 HC82 2009 HC82 2009 MS9 2009 MS9 2009 QY6 2009 QY6 2009 SU186 2009 SU186 2009 YS6 2009 YS6 2010 BK118 2010 BK118 2010 CG55 2010 CG55 2010 EE21 2010 EE21 2010 EB46 2010 EB46 2010 EJ104 2010 EJ104 2010 GW64 2010 GW64 2010 GW147 2010 GW147 2010 GM163 2010 GM163 2010 HA25 2010 HA25 2010 JH124 2010 JH124 2010 JC147 2010 JC147 2010 LG61 2010 LG61 2010 LX90 2010 LX90 2010 OR1 2010 OR1 2010 OA101 2010 OA101 2010 OM101 2010 OM101 2010 PO58 2010 PO58 2010 TR19 2010 TR19 2010 WZ71 2010 WZ71 2011 AF3 2011 AF3 2011 CR42 2011 CR42 2011 JN 2011 JN 2011 KE 2011 KE 2011 OR17 2011 OR17 2011 RC17 2011 RC17 2011 SP25 2011 SP25 2011 SQ55 2011 SQ55 2011 SQ249 2011 SQ249 2011 UR402 2011 UR402 2011 WT2 2011 WT2 2011 WS41 2011 WS41 2011 WR74 2011 WR74 2011 YU75 2011 YU75 2012 BZ130 2012 BZ130 2012 DR30 2012 DR30 2012 DD61 2012 DD61 2012 HD2 2012 HD2 2012 KA51 2012 KA51 2012 TL139 2012 TL139 2012 TW236 2012 TW236 2012 US68 2012 US68 2012 US136 2012 US136 2012 UN138 2012 UN138 2012 VU85 2012 VU85 2012 YO6 2012 YO6 2012 YE8 2012 YE8 2013 AZ60 2013 AZ60 2013 BN27 2013 BN27 2013 BL76 2013 BL76 2013 CM77 2013 CM77