- 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
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11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR Discovery Discovered by: Ernst Tempel,
Lewis Swift &
LINEARDiscovery date: November 27, 1869 Alternate designations: 1869 W1; 1869 III;
1869c; 1880 T1;
1880 IV; 1880e;
1891 V; 1891d;
1908 II; 1908d;
2001 X3Orbital characteristics A Epoch: January 6, 2002 (JD 2452280.5) Aphelion distance: 5.29 AU Perihelion distance: 1.584 AU Semi-major axis: 3.437 AU Eccentricity: 0.54 Orbital period: 6.372 a Inclination: 13.46° Last perihelion: May 4, 2008 Next perihelion: August 26, 2014 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet in our solar system.
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (Marseille) originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift (Warner Observatory) on October 11, 1880 and realised to be the same comet.
After 1908 the comet became an unobservable lost comet, but on December 7, 2001 an object was found by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program, and confirmed by previous images from September 10 and October 17 as being the same comet.
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