Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle)

Details Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle) Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle)

Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5241. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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A short-period comet discovered in 1862 independently by several observers, the first of which were Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. At its brightest it reached magnitude 2 and showed a tail over 25° long. Subsequent calculations indicated that the period was around 120 years, but searches in the early 1980s failed to find it. The comet was not recovered until September 1992, as a `new' comet repor...

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