11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR

11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet with a 5.95-year orbit around the Sun.

Key facts

Comet.name: 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
Comet.image: 11P 2021-01-04 NEOWISE image 3-color.png
Comet.caption: Infrared image of Comet T–S–L taken by NEOWISE on 4 January 2021.
Comet.epoch: 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5)
Comet.observation_arc: 154.75 years
Comet.obs: 1,337
Comet.perihelion: 1.388 AU
Comet.aphelion: 5.18 AU
Comet.semimajor: 3.284 AU
Comet.eccentricity: 0.57756
Comet.period: 5.95 years
Comet.inclination: 14.435°

Article

7 sections

Contents

Observational history
Discovery
Loss and recovery
Recent observations
Notes
References
External links

11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet with a 5.95-year orbit around the Sun.

== Observational history == === Discovery === In 1869, the comet's perihelion was around from the Sun. Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel originally discovered the comet on 27 November 1869, from his observatory at Marseille. It was later observed by Lewis Swift from the Warner Observatory on 11 October 1880, and he realised that it is the same comet as Tempel's.