But if you discover a comet, your name is <i>automatically</i> placed on it. If you discover more than one, they all get your name, plus some sort of number to distinguish them. For instance, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the ninth comet discovered by the crack team of Shoemaker and Levy. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> For comets discovered by large projects, they get the project name. Thus, there are several Comet Linears, and probably hundreds of Comet SOHOs (although the Comet SOHOs are probably all gone now -- it mainly finds sungrazers). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>