9P/Tempel 1 Information Page

Comet 9P/Tempel 1 is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a deliberate high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005. It was re-visited by the Stardust spacecraft on February 14, 2011. It has dimensions 6.3 x 5.9 x 5.2 km, a very slow rotation period of 40.7 hr, and an orbit semi-major axis distance of 3.145 AU with an eccentricity of 0.5096.

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