Comet Swift-Tuttle

Comet

The parent body of the annual Perseid meteor shower, with a nucleus larger than the object believed to have ended the dinosaurs.

Facts

TypeComet
Distance from the Sun26.09 AU
Diameter26 km
Mass5.50 × 10^15 kg
Temperature-218°C
Orbital period48,679 days
Rotation period67.2 hours
Apparent magnitude4.5
Redshift0
Discovered1862
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