The identification of comets in Chinese historical records

The historical records of astronomical phenomena may play a significant role in comet identification.Getting an accurate result is based on many factors,of which the calculation of orbital elements is the most important.This paper presents a Cross Reference method in which the perturbation of Jupiter is the only considered factor used to attempt an efficient way of comet identification with ancient Chinese historical records.In this method,the records before and after the calculated result from orbital dete...