From the July 2008 issue

How are comets named?

Alice Metcalf, Kansas City, Missouri
By | Published: July 1, 2008 | Last updated on May 18, 2023
Comets can be named for up to three independent discoverers. Increasingly, those discoverers are not individuals, but automated observatories or solar-observing satellites like the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.