Horace Parnell Tuttle
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Horace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, an American Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle.
H. P. Tuttle, c. 1862
H. P. Tuttle, c. 1866
H. P. Tuttle, 1888 (USNO)
55P/Tempel–Tuttle
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55P/Tempel–Tuttle is a retrograde periodic comet with an orbital period of 33 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with a period of between 20 and 200 years. It was independe
Horace Parnell Tuttle
…balconies of the 15-inch refractor, spending many nights in search of new comets. Horace Tuttle discovered or co-discovered numerous comets, including 55P/Tempel-Tuttle (parent body of the Leonid meteor shower, discovered by Tuttle January 6, 1866), and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, disc…
Comet Tempel–Tuttle photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on 9 January 1998
Sketch of the comet as it was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel on 19 December 1865.
Hyakutake Color