| 36P/Whipple | |
| Discoverer: | Fred Lawrence Whipple |
| Discovery Date: | October 15, 1933 |
| Designations: | 1926 VIII; 1933 IV; 1941 III; 1948 VI; 1955 VIII; 1963 II; 1970 XIV; 1978 VIII; 1986 XII; 1994 XXXII |
| Epoch: | March 6, 2006 |
| Semimajor: | 4.165 AU |
| Perihelion: | 3.089 AU |
| Aphelion: | 5.241 AU |
| Eccentricity: | 0.2583 |
| Period: | 8.501 a |
| Inclination: | 9.9345° |
| Last P: | May 31, 2020 December 30, 2011 July 6, 2003 |
| Next P: | 2028-Nov-04 |
36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the lowest numbered Quasi-Hilda comet.[1] It passed 0.25abbr=unitNaNabbr=unit from Jupiter in June 1922.
The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.5 kilometers in diameter[2] or 5.1 kilometers. The rotational period was estimated to be about 40 hours.[3]