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Comet 109P/SwiftTuttle was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16, 1862 

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Big Comet May Strike Earth in August 2126
Published: October 27, 1992

Buried deep in a one-page text on new orbital computations for Swift-Tuttle, it warns that the comet could "hit the Earth on 2126 Aug. 14. It therefore seems prudent," the circular goes on, to track the comet as long as possible during its current pass through the inner solar system to better determine its orbit for the next pass and thus to help refine calculations of the odds of collision.
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Comet Swift-Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift-Tuttle) is a comet that was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16, 1862 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on July 19, 1862. It has a well determined orbit and has a comet nucleus 26 km in diameter.  It is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, perhaps the best known shower and among the most reliable in performance.
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