A/ designations do not parse
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mkelley commented
An A/ designation indicates an asteroidal object (in appearance) in a cometary orbit: https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K18/K18H54.html
A/ objects do not parse as cometary or asteroidal:
>>> from sbpy.data import Names
>>> Names.asteroid_or_comet('A/2018 V3')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/disks/data0/astro/Projects/sbpy/sbpy/data/names.py", line 597, in asteroid_or_comet
raise TargetNameParseError('Target nature unclear.')
sbpy.data.names.TargetNameParseError: Target nature unclear.
What did you expect?
A/ should parse as an asteroid.