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    Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until...
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    Tempel 1 (official designation: 9P/Tempel) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every...
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    period of between 20 and 200 years. It was independently discovered by Wilhelm Tempel on December 19, 1865, and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on January 6, 1866...
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    The crater was named after German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel. There is a gap in the northwestern rim of Tempel that forms a protrusion that follows the rim...
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    10P/Tempel, also known as Tempel 2, is a periodic Jupiter-family comet with a 5-year orbital period. It was discovered on July 4, 1873 by Wilhelm Tempel....
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  • Look up Tempel or tempel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tempel (German or Dutch: temple) may refer to: Wilhelm Tempel (1821–1889), German astronomer...
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    Merope. It was discovered on October 19, 1859 by the German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel. The discovery was made using a 10.5 cm refractor. John Herschel included...
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    NGC 47 (category Discoveries by Wilhelm Tempel)
    1886 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel. Its alternate name NGC 58 is due to the observation by Lewis Swift, who was unaware that Tempel had already discovered...
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    65 Cybele (category Discoveries by Wilhelm Tempel)
    by Wilhelm Tempel in 1861, and named after Cybele, the earth goddess. Cybele was discovered on 8 March 1861, by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel from...
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    74 Galatea (category Discoveries by Wilhelm Tempel)
    of just 0.034. Galatea was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on August 29, 1862, in Marseilles, France. It was his third asteroid discovery...
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