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11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR

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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°
Comet.asc_node
238.87°
Comet.arg_peri
168.04°
Comet.mean
235.14°
Comet.tjup
2.839
Comet.Earth_moid
0.403 AU
Comet.Jupiter_moid
0.326 AU

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Wikidata facts

Parent body
Sun
Orbital period
2178.330937839413
Image
11P 20201120 image ZTF-sso-500-zr-fov-4.7-arcmin.png
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time of discovery or invention
1869-11-27
periapsis date (DEPRECATED)
2020-11-26
Commons category
11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
provisional designation
1869c
absolute magnitude
15.2
orbital eccentricity
0.5774221353101371
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.28864469721933
periapsis
1.389708453874585
apoapsis
5.187580940564074
orbital inclination
14.43558222984413
longitude of ascending node
238.9870236722805
argument of periapsis
167.7673739633523
mean anomaly
295.5446487095796
time of periapsis
2459179.514127292
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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