55P/Tempel–Tuttle

periodic comet with an orbital period of 33 years, parent body of the Leonid meteor shower
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55P/Tempel–Tuttle
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55P/Tempel–Tuttle

Summary

55P/Tempel–Tuttle is a periodic comet[1]. 55P/Tempel–Tuttle ranks in the top 3% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle is credited with the discovery of Wilhelm Tempel[3].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle is credited with the discovery of Horace Parnell Tuttle[4].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's image is recorded as Drawing of comet 55P by Tempel-from his personal notebooks in the Arcetri.jpg[5].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[6].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[7].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[8].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's Commons category is recorded as 55P/Tempel–Tuttle[9].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[10].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's child astronomical body is recorded as Leonids[11].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 55P/1997 E1[12].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 55P/1965 M2[13].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 55P/1865 Y1[14].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 55P/1699 U1[15].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 55P/1366 U1[16].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 1965 IV[17].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 1866 I[18].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 1699 II[19].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 1366[20].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's provisional designation is recorded as 1965i[21].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1866-01-06T00:00:00Z[22].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1865-12-19T00:00:00Z[23].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02sd5r[24].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000095[25].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.905552720972412'}[26].
  • 55P/Tempel–Tuttle's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.0'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Wilhelm Tempel[3], an astronomer[28], 1821–1889[29], of Kingdom of Saxony[30], awarded the Lalande Prize[31], specialised in astronomy[32] and Horace Parnell Tuttle[4], an astronomer[33], 1837–1923[34], of United States[35], awarded the Lalande Prize[36], specialised in astronomy[37].

Why It Matters

55P/Tempel–Tuttle ranks in the top 3% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2] 55P/Tempel–Tuttle has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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