Living with Comets: Tsuruhiko Kiuchi@Nagano / Summer 1996
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Distance between Swift-Tuttle comet and Kiuchi (earth): approximately 234,900,000 km.
December 12, 1992 The Swift-Tuttle comet reaches closest point to sun (passing the perihelion).

"When the Swift Tuttle Comet returns in 2126, it may actually crash into Earth, according to announced orbit calculations."