Tempel-Tuttle comet

The Comet Tempel-Tuttle (indexed as 55P/Tempel-Tuttle) independently was discovered by Ernst Tempel on December 19th 1865 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on January 6th 1866.

It is the body of origin of the swarm of the Léonides.

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