Observations from the 8-Tetrahedron Nonorientable Census

Through computer enumeration with the aid of topological results, we catalogue all 18 closed nonorientable P-irreducible 3-manifolds that can be formed from at most eight tetrahedra. In addition we give an overview as to how the 100 resulting minimal triangulations are constructed. Observations and conjectures are drawn from the census data, and future potential for the nonorientable census is discussed. Some preliminary nine-tetrahedron results are also included.