Comet Swift–Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift–Tuttle) is a large periodic comet with a 1995 (osculating) orbital period of 133 years that is in a...
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Leonid meteor shower, discovered by Tuttle January 6, 1866), and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, disc. July 19, 1862), the...
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Swift discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent...
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to these other comets: 109P/Swift-Tuttle (a.k.a. 109P/-68 Q1, 109P/188 O1, 109P/1737 N1, 1737 II, 109P/1862 O1, 1862 III, 109P/1992 S2, 1992 XXVIII, 1992t)...
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include: 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR 64P/Swift–Gehrels 109P/Swift–Tuttle C/1883 D1 (Brooks–Swift) In addition, his son, Edward D. Swift, discovered one comet...
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Tempel-Tuttle. A graph from it was adapted and re-published in Sky and Telescope. It showed relative positions of the Earth and Tempel-Tuttle and marks...
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The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August. The meteors are...
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(Chacornac) Perseids 17 Jul – 24 Aug 12 Aug 140.0 3.2 +58 59 100 bright 109P/Swift-Tuttle Kappa Cygnids 3 Aug – 28 Aug 16 Aug 144 19.1 +59 23 3 medium undiscovered...
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December 30, 2024[update], 123 such objects have been discovered. Comet 109P/Swift–Tuttle, which is also the source of the Perseid meteor shower every year...
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Pacinotti was one of several independent discoverers of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Lungarno Pacinotti, an embankment of the Arno River in Pisa, is named...
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has an Earth-MOID less than 0.05 AU. Known PHCs include: 109P/Swift-Tuttle, 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, 15P/Finlay, 289P/Blanpain, 255P/Levy, 206P/Barnard–Boattini...
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concurrently, 1858. 1862: 109P/Swift–Tuttle, the comet generating the Perseid meteor shower, was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on 16 July 1862, and...
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Ciffréo 6.95 0.5810 3.642 13.98 10.9 JFC – MPC · JPL 109P/Swift–Tuttle L. Swift H. P. Tuttle 133.28 0.9632 26.092 113.45 4.5 HTC ✓ MPC · JPL 110P/Hartley...
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comets to older apparitions. This includes linking periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle to Chinese comets seen in 69 BC and AD 188, which helped confirm that...
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(75,000 km; 46,000 mi; 0.19 LD) 109P/Swift-Tuttle 1995 0.0009 AU (130,000 km; 84,000 mi; 0.35 LD) 55P/Tempel–Tuttle 1998 0.0085 AU (1,270,000 km; 790...
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Astro.ukho.gov.uk (May 3, 2011). Retrieved on January 19, 2014. "109P/Swift-Tuttle Orbit". Minor Planet Center. "Occultation – Mutual planetary transits...
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Swift-Tuttle Halley Earth, Eros, Saltis, Mars, Sun, Mercury, Venus Jupiter Saturn and 5025 PL Uranus Neptune Pluto and Charon Ixion Eris Sedna Termination...
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Hyakutake and many short-period comets such as 2P/Encke, 7P/Pons–Winnecke, 8P/Tuttle, 14P/Wolf, and 19P/Borrelly. By July 5, NASA's Parker Solar Probe had captured...
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273P/Pons–Gambart (188 years), 35P/Herschel–Rigollet (155 years), and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (133 years). Of Barnard's other two periodic comets, the first, D/1884...
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(≈100 km), Comet of 1729 (≈100 km), Hale–Bopp (≈60 km), 29P (≈60 km), 109P/Swift–Tuttle (≈26 km), and 28P/Neujmin (≈21 km). The potato-shaped nucleus of Halley's...
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Numbered comets Previous 107P/Wilson–Harrington 108P/Ciffréo Next 109P/Swift–Tuttle...
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successfully predicted the 1992 return of the once-lost periodic comet Swift–Tuttle. There are a number of reasons why a comet might be missed by astronomers...
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and meteors for more than 20 years. He planned a search for comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle in 1992 with the Schmidt telescope at Cima Ekar and later found prerecovery...
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August 15, 2015 it should have been 0.56 AU from Earth. 55P/Tempel–Tuttle 109P/Swift–Tuttle 460P/PANSTARRS D/1770 L1 (Lexell) C/1983 H1 (IRAS–Araki–Alcock)...
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Numbered comets Previous 109P/Swift–Tuttle 110P/Hartley Next 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett...
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meteors were faint. This encounter with the dust trails or Filament of 109P/Swift-Tuttle was not anticipated 2020: CAMS detected a new shower now called the...
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97P/Metcalf–Brewington 103P/Hartley 107P/Wilson–Harrington 108P/Ciffréo 109P/Swift–Tuttle 122P/de Vico 126P/IRAS 141P/Machholz 144P/Kushida 147P/Kushida–Muramatsu...
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