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Tempel 1 (official designation: 9P/Tempel) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.6 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a deliberate high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005.
Noun tempel n (definite singular tempelet, indefinite plural tempel, definite plural templa) a temple (place of worship)
Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was discovered on by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel of Marseille, France while visually searching for comets. The comet was then 9th magnitude and described by Tempel as having an apparent diameter of 4 to 5 arcmin across.
Comet 9P/Tempel 1 orbits the Sun within the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Tempel 1 last reached perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) in 2016.
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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. April 26: A look at enigmatic Gamma Cas Comet 10P/Tempel, also called Tempel 2, is continuing to brighten in the early ...