55P/Tempel-Tuttle is a small comet with a nucleus measuring just 2.24 miles (3.6 km) across. It was discovered independently by both Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle in 1865 and 1866, ...

Created by the 55P/Tempel-Tuttle comet, Leonids will come from the Leo constellation, which rises in the eastern sky right around 2 a.m. local time for most of its run.

Created by the 55P/Tempel-Tuttle comet, Leonids will come from the Leo constellation, which rises in the eastern sky right around 2 a.m. local time for most of its run.

Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle next reaches closest approach, or perihelion, in 2031. Astronomy: Roen Kelly. Leonids to dazzle in 2022? While the 2022 Leonid shower is not expected to storm, it may ...

Another, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle — the comet that produces the annual Leonid meteor shower — was recently determined to have passed 2.1 million miles (3.4 million km) from Earth on October 26, 1366.

Don't forget to look up. Once a year and typically in mid-November, the earth's journey around the sun drags the planet through a patch of debris from the Tempel-Tuttle comet, also known as Comet 55P.

November 17-18 will see the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower, the leftovers of the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which was last in the inner solar system in 1998.

The comet passes Earth every 75 years (the next flyby is in 2061). ... These meteors are the product of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The small Tempel-Tuttle takes 33 years to orbit the Sun.

The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Leonids originate from 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, a small comet named for the two men who discovered it independently in 1865 ...

This year’s show should be a more placid 15 meteors per hour or so as our planet is not forecast to encounter any dense debris fields from the shower’s parent comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, until 2099.