Talk:1978 NV4

February 2008
The page redirects to (9940) 1988 VM3. The latter page says nothing about NV4. Google search did not make me smarter. Please clarify. `'Míkka>t 23:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * was a provisional designation that wasn't the main identifying tag for the body, but was given to it by the Minor Planet Center until it was identified as being . When it was numbered (9940),  was the named used for the official designation, but  hangs around as an alternate designation.  While I concede its probably unlikely that anyone will ever use that, it is floating around in some Minor Planet Center circular somewhere or another (most aren't online) and published data from some survey or another may use that designation, so the redirect is potentially useful, and redirects are cheap.  So cheap, in fact, it's been suggested to me that deleting them is worse for the server than leaving them be.


 * But if you go to http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9940 you'll see at the bottom left there's a little box that says "alternate designations", which includes 1978 NV4. It's really not a big deal, but it's a little more complete.  Cheers, Wily D  01:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, silly me. I simply did not notice "NV4" in the infobox. BTW, usually redirect targets are boldfaced. `'Míkka>t 01:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)