--On Saturday, June 18, 2005 4:55 PM -0400 Roger Curry
<rcurry@...> wrote:

> The recent S&T news bulletin talked about Deep Impact and comet Tempel
> 1. I thought it was comet Tempel 9. I don't even find Tempel 1 in the
> comets listed in the Quick Info, though they talk about the comet being
> near Spica and Tempel 9 is not too far from there now. Has this comet
> got two names? The NASA website also calls it Tempel 1.

Guide and AAAP Observers,
The official name of the comet is 9P/Tempel-1.
Truman

Truman P. Kohman, Departments of Chemistry and Physics
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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