C/1864 N1 (Tempel)
ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIHELION 0.909 AU · ECCENTRICITY 0.996
CATALOG DATA
] 9 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
THE ORBIT
The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.
- Eccentricity
- Inclination
- 178.13
- Longitude of ascending node
- 97.67
- Argument of perihelion
- 151.58
- Mean anomaly
- 0
- Element epoch
- 2402080.5000
- Perihelion passage
- 2402099.5800
- Orbit class
- COM
WHEN IT WAS FOUND
Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.
- First observed
- 1864-07-09
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 2 DESIGNATIONS- Comet 1864 N1
- Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel)
LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE
] 1 SERVICEEach link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.
- JPL Small-Body DatabaseC/1864 N1
The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.
CITE THIS PAGE
] DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. C/1864 N1 (Tempel) [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1864-n1-tempel
@misc{spacecatalog_c-1864-n1-tempel,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{C/1864 N1 (Tempel)}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1864-n1-tempel},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.