[Rob_K]

Originally Posted by orestis

hopefully i can try for hartley2 soon.

"Thus, at the end of 2000, the ICQ adopted the practice of eliminating the suffixed numerals to comet names; this does mean, however, that permanent numbers or year/letter/number designations must be used with the name (of course, it is sufficient to use the permanent numbers or designations alone without the name, but not vice versa). The IAU adopted a policy of *optionally* including or excluding suffixed numerals to comet names when it approved the new set of comet-naming guidelines in March 2003. Thus, the Minor Planet Center and the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams also no longer use comet-name suffixed numerals. (While a few people who have dealt a lot with comets over the last several decades will wish to continue using the redundant suffixed numerals for nostalgic reasons, such use will fade into oblivion during the next generation of astronomers -- so one might as well stop using them now and concentrate instead on the more logical prefixed numerals. This will make it easier on astronomers of the future, who will soon be wondering what the suffixed numerals stood for in the "old" literature, as the old suffixed numerals fall rapidly into dis-use.)"
http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/cometnames.html



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