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Provisional designation is the internationally standardized naming convention applied to astronomical objects immediately following their discovery announcement. The provisional designation of a minor planet is augmented by a permanent catalog number once a reliable orbit has been calculated, and may be superseded by a permanent name if one is given. As of 2019, approximately 47% of the more than 1,100,000 known minor planets remain unnumbered, as hundreds of thousands had been discovered in the previous two decades, and 4% of numbered objects have been assigned a name. This system is overseen by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.
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