| Comet | Old Definitive (A) | Old Provisional (B) | New Designation ( C ) | Month Observed | Year Observed | Max m1 | Link | |
| West | 1976 VI | 1975 N | C/1975 V1 | July | 1975 | -3.0 | ||
| Stephen-Oterma | 38P/ | November | 1980 | |||||
| Tuttle | 8P/ | November | 1980 | |||||
| Grigg-Skjellerup | 1982 IV | 1982 A | 26P/ | ? | 1982 | |||
| Austin | 1982 VI | 1982 G | C/1982 M1 | August | 1982 | |||
| d'Arrest | 1982 VII | 1982 E | 6P/ | August | 1982 | |||
| IRAS/ARAKI/Alcock | 1983 H1 | ? | 1983 | 1.7 | ||||
| Cernis | C/1983 I | September | 1983 | |||||
| Gacobinni Zinner | 1985 XIII | 1984 E | 21P | October | 1985 | |||
| Halley's | 1986 III | 1982 I | 1P/1982 UI | October | 1985 | 2.4 | ||
| Hartley Good | 1985 XVII | 1985 L | C/1985 R1 | October | 1985 | |||
| Theile | 1985 XIV | 1985 M | C/1985 T1 | October | 1985 | |||
| Wilson | 1987 VII | 1986 L | C/1986 P1 | August | 1986 | |||
| Wild 2 | 81P/ | February | 1986 | |||||
| Bradfield | 1987 XXIX | 1987 S | C/1987 P1 | October | 1987 | |||
| Temple II | 10P/ | June | 1988 | |||||
| Liller | 1988 V | 1988 A | C/1988 A1 | May | 1988 | |||
| Levy | 1990 XX | 1990 C | C/1990 K1 | ? | 1990 | |||
| Austin | 1990 V | 1989 C1 | C/1989 X1 | April | 1990 | |||
| Shoemaker-Levy | 1992 XIX | 1991 A1 | C/1991 T2 | ? | 1992 | |||
| Swift-Tuttle | 1992 XXVIII | 1992 T | 109P/1992 S2 | ? | 1992 | |||
| Borrelly | 1994 XXX | 1994 L | 19P/ | ? | 1994 | |||
| Hyakutake | C/1996 B2 | ? | 1996 | 0.0 | ||||
| Hale Bopp | C/1995 O1 | April | 1997 | -0.8 | ||||
| Linear | C/2001 A2 | May | 2000 | |||||
| Ikeya-Zhang | C/2002 C1 | March | 2002 | 4.0 | ||||
| Neat | C/2001 Q4 | May | 2004 | 2.8 | ||||
| Pojmansky | C/2006 A1 | ? | 2006 | |||||
| Schwassman Wachman 3 | 73P/ | May | 2006 | |||||
| Schwassman Wachman B | 73P/ | May | 2006 | |||||
| Schwassman Wachman C | 73P/ | May | 2006 | |||||
| Swan | C/2006 M4 | October | 2006 | |||||
| McNaught | C/2006 P1 | January | 2007 | -5.5 | Daylight Visible | |||
| LINEAR | C/2006 VZ13 | July | 2007 | |||||
| Lovejoy | May | 2007 | ||||||
| Tuttle | 8P/ | November | 2007 | |||||
| Holmes | C/2007 P1 | October | 2007 | 2.4 | ||||
| Loneos | C/2007 F1 | October | 2007 | |||||
| Boattini | C/2007 W1 | May | 2008 | |||||
| a) Old-style definitive designation; b) old-style provisional designation; c) new-style designation (with year of perihelion for recent short-period comets) | ||||||||