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'Comet Tempel-Tuttle' (formally designated as '55P/Tempel-Tuttle') was independently discovered by
Ernst Tempel on
December 19 1865 and by
Horace Parnell Tuttle on
January 6 1866.
It is the parent body of the
Leonid meteor shower.