55P/Tempel–Tuttle - Wikipedia
WEB55P/Tempel–Tuttle (commonly known as Comet Tempel–Tuttle) is a retrograde periodic comet with an orbital period of 33 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with a period of between 20 and 200 years.
55P/Tempel-Tuttle - Science@NASA
WEBComet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle is a small comet―its nucleus measures only about 2.24 miles (3.6 kilometers) across. It takes Tempel-Tuttle 33 years to orbit the sun once. Tempel-Tuttle last reached perihelion (closest approach to the sun) in 1998 and will return again in 2031.
Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle - TheSkyLive
WEBJan 1, 2013 · Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle Position Calculator. Compute the position of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle for any date and time between 1 January 2013 and 30 December 2100 and visualize the results on an interactive sky map.
55P/Tempel-Tuttle
WEBErnst Wilhelm Liebrecht Tempel (Marseille, France) discovered this comet on 1865 December 19. It was then in the evening sky near the star Beta Ursa Majoris. He described it as a circular object, with a central condensation and a tail 30 arc minutes long.
Leonid meteor shower: All you need to know in 2024 - EarthSky
WEBPeriodic Comet Tempel-Tuttle, officially known as 55P/Temple-Tuttle, is responsible for the Leonid meteor shower. William Tempel of Marseilles Observatory in France discovered this comet on the...
Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle - Space Reference
WEB55P/Tempel-Tuttle is a mid-sized comet with a medium-length orbit that is highly inclined to the ecliptic plane of the solar system. NASA JPL has classified 55P/Tempel-Tuttle as a "Near Earth Asteroid" due to its orbit's proximity to Earth, but it is not considered potentially hazardous because computer simulations have not indicated any ...
comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle - NASA
WEBFeb 4, 1998 · The image was obtained with a 105cm telescope and a Thomson 7863 CCD camera and a broadband filter 530-900 nm. The image is the sum of 40 exposures of 240 seconds. The comet was 1.09 AU form the Sun and 0.59 AU from Earth. The left image shows the unprocessed result.
Leonids - NASA Science
WEBDec 2, 2023 · The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Leonids originate from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. It takes comet Tempel-Tuttle 33 years to orbit the sun once.
comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle - NASA
WEBJan 31, 1998 · This video of 55P/Tempel-Tuttle was made on January 31, 1998, at the public observatory of Lattrop in the Netherlands. A CCD camera was used to make 11 images of 1 minute exposure each. The first exposure was started at 21:07:06 UT, the last was finished just before 22:00 UT.
55P/Tempel–Tuttle - Wikiwand
WEB55P/Tempel–Tuttle (commonly known as Comet Tempel–Tuttle) is a retrograde periodic comet with an orbital period of 33 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with a period of between 20 and 200 years.