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Comet Tempel

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Comet Tempel may mean:

Either of these numbered periodic comets:
- 9P/Tempel
  9P/Tempel
  Tempel 1 , is a periodic comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It currently completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a deliberate high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005...
  
  , Comet Tempel 1 (a.k.a. 9P/1867 G1, 1867 II, 9P/1873 G1, 1873 I, 1873a, 1879 III, 1879b, 9P/1967 L1, 1966 VII, 9P/1972 A1, 1972 V, 1972a, 1978 II, 1977i, 1983 XI, 1982j, 1989 I, 1987e1, 1994 XIX, 1993c)
- 10P/Tempel
  10P/Tempel
  10P/Tempel, also known as Tempel 2, is a periodic comet in our solar system.The comet nucleus is estimated to be 10.6 kilometers in diameter with a low albedo of 0.022....
  
  , Comet Tempel 2 (a.k.a. 10P/1873 N1, 1873 II, 1873b, 10P/1878 O1, 1878 III, 1878b, 1894 III, 1894c, 1899 IV, 1899c, 1904 III, 1904c, 1915 I, 1915c, 1920 II, 1920a, 1925 IV, 1925d, 1930 VII, 1930f, 1946 III, 1946b, 1951 VIII, 1951d, 1957 II, 1956e, 1962 VI, 1961b, 1967 X, 1967d, 1972 X, 1972c, 1978 V, 1977d, 1983 X, 1982d, 1988 XIV, 1987g, 1994 VII)

Any of these long-period comets:
- C/1859 G1
- C/1860 U1 (a.k.a. 1860 IV)
- C/1863 V1 (a.k.a. 1863 IV)
- C/1864 N1 (a.k.a. 1864 II)
- C/1869 T1 (a.k.a. 1869 II, 1869b)
- C/1871 L1 (a.k.a. 1871 II, 1871b)
- C/1871 V1 (a.k.a. 1871 IV, 1871e)
- C/1877 T1 (a.k.a. 1877 V, 1877f)

A partial reference to either of these comets:
- 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR
  11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR
  11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet in our solar system.Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift on October 11, 1880 and realised to be the same comet.After 1908 the comet became an unobservable lost comet,...
  
  (a.k.a. 11P/1869 W1, 1869 III, 1869c, 11P/1880 T1, 1880 IV, 1880e, 1891 V, 1891d, 1908 II, 1908d, 11P/2001 X3)
- 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
  55P/Tempel-Tuttle
  55P/Tempel–Tuttle is a comet that was independently discovered by Ernst Tempel on December 19, 1865 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on January 6, 1866.It is the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower...
  
  (a.k.a. 55P/1366 U1, 55P/1699 U1, 1699 II, 55P/1865 Y1, 1866 I, 55P/1965 M2, 1965 IV, 1965i, 55P/1997 E1)

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