Key facts
- Discovered by
- Wilhelm Tempel
- Discovery date
- 3 April 1867
- Mpc designation
- P/1867 G1, P/1873 G1 P/1967 L1, P/1972 A1
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ t ɛ m p əl /
- Alternative designations
- Tempel 1 1867 II, 1873 I, 1879 III 1966 VII, 1972 V, 1978 II 1983 XI, 1989 I, 1994 XIX 1873a, 1879b, 1972a 1977i, 1982j, 1989 I 1987e1, 1993c
- Epoch
- 25 February 2023 ( JD 2460000.5)
- Aphelion
- 4.757 AU
- Perihelion
- 1.545 AU, (1.77 AU after 2024 Jupiter approach)
- Semi major axis
- 3.151 AU
- Orbital period
- 5.59 years
- Inclination
- 10.474°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 68.64°
- Argument of periapsis
- 179.54°
- Last perihelion
- 4 March 2022
- Next perihelion
- 12 February 2028
- Earth moid
- 0.52 AU
- Dimensions
- 7.6 km × 4.9 km (4.7 mi × 3.0 mi)
- Mass
- 7.2 × 10 to 7.9 × 10 kg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Named after
- Wilhelm Tempel
- Area
- 108
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 6.0
- Radius
- 2.83
- Mass
- 58
- Orbital period
- 2038.454236499046
- Image
- PIA02142 Tempel 1 bottom sharped.jpg
- Height
- 4.9
- Width
- 7.6
- Significant event
- flyby
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- discoverer or inventor
- Wilhelm Tempel
- Commons category
- Comet Tempel 1
- time of discovery or invention
- 1867-04-03
- site of astronomical discovery
- Marseille Observatory
- albedo
- 0.05
- apparent magnitude
- 9.5
- surface gravity
- 0.034
- volume as quantity
- 95.2
- rotation period
- 40.7
- epoch
- February 29, 2016
- provisional designation
- 1873 I
- absolute magnitude
- 12.9
- time of periapsis
- 2457603.065271417
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5097343751339731
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.146311319263569
- periapsis
- 1.542528284961807
- apoapsis
- 4.750094353565331
- orbital inclination
- 10.4733081293036
- longitude of ascending node
- 68.75606981882036
- argument of periapsis
- 179.1940873048903
- mean anomaly
- 332.5262024677278
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