Talk:Provisional designation in astronomy

message: Just a heads-up to editors... you may find :Template:Minplan to be of use when writing in provisional designations into Wikipedia -The Tom 21:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Minplan" template 

message: The usual solution at this point is approval polling. Please note which of the following names for this article you can tolerate, and the one that the most people can put up with is where the article goes (until next time). Feel free to add or strike out approvals to reach consensus, also to add new possibilities. Comments of more than a sentence and arguments against should go in #Further discussion Septentrionalis 18:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Approval

message: #hike395 02:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Provisional designation]]

message: #Last choice. Septentrionalis 18:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Provisional designation (astronomy)]]

message: #Septentrionalis 18:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Provisional designation in astronomy]]

message: #Septentrionalis 18:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Provisional designation of asteroids]]

message: I'll add more material about non-asteroidal provisional designations, if we rename it to be more general. -- hike395 16:35, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have time right now to do a great job in describing provisional designation of comets and satellites. I'll get to it in the next couple of weeks --- if someone else wants to take a crack at it first, please feel free. -- hike395 04:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Further discussion

message: It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. Ryan Norton T | @ | C 01:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: I have some confusion for the designations for 1893. Everyone agrees that the system started in 1892, and the last 1892 designation was 1892 V ('vee', not '5'). The problem is what was the first one in 1893? The implication here is that the system was started over again at 1893 A, then ran to 1893 Z, and then the double-lettering (AA, AB, etc) started. But Willy Ley, in Watchers of the Skies says that they just continued the lettering, and the first one was 1893 W. The information at the Minor Planet Data Center website is not clear, and may even indicate that they finished the 1892 alphabet, then started over again with 1893 A, then ran through again to 1893 AA. That probably is not the case, since W-Z would be repeated that way, but their wording can be interpeted that way. The one piece of information that I do have is that 1893 Z turned out to be a rediscovery of 175 Andromache (again, from Ley). Does anyone know for sure? CFLeon 22:16, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Asteroids- Clarification for 1893

message: 2005 UW512 is said here to be the 12,875th minor planet discovered in its half-month, but 512*25+22 = 12,822.
Shouldn't the last one be 2005 UY514? NSHSedit (talk) 22:16, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also: latest count (from the citation) is 13268. I assume that 12823-12875 weren't confirmed discoveries; can we put 2005 US530 as the last provisional designation?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by NSHSedit (talk • contribs) 22:22, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it! K05Ur0P is the last listed in . That works out to 2005 UP530, which is just about right! NSHSedit (talk) 22:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2005 UW512 

message: I believe interstellar objects designators (I/)  need to be added to this article, as well as the A/  designators for "asteroids originally mistaken for comets."
I am not a subject matter expert so I don't feel qualified, especially w.r.t. packed designations.
2601:646:8600:40C1:8528:7390:256:B1FB (talk) 06:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interstellar objects