34D/Gale

{{Short description|Lost comet}}

{{For|the other comets discovered by Walter F. Gale|C/1894 G1 (Gale)|C/1912 R1 (Gale)}}

{{Infobox comet

| name=34D/Gale

| image=

| caption=Comet Gale

| discoverer=Walter Frederick Gale

| discovery_date=June 7, 1927

| designations=1927 L1, 1938 L1

| epoch=July 1, 1938

| aphelion=8.7 AU{{Cite magazine

|last=Ley

|first=Willy

|date=September 1968

|title=Mission to a Comet

|department=For Your Information

|url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n02_1968-09#page/n99/mode/2up

|magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction

|pages=101–110

}}

| perihelion=1.18 AU{{cite web

|date=1938

|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 34D/Gale

|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=34P

|publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory

|access-date=2010-02-28}}

| semimajor=4.94 AU

| semiminor=

| orbital_circ=

| eccentricity=0.76{{r|ley196809}}

| period=10.99 a

| avg_speed=

| max_speed=

| min_speed=

| inclination=11.72 °

| last_p=

| next_p=August 2026? (Lost)

}}

Comet Gale is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Walter Frederick Gale (Sydney, Australia) on June 7, 1927.

The second apparition was calculated for 1938, but Gale failed to find it; however, it was recalculated by Leland E. Cunningham who later recovered it for that year.

The 1949 apparition was never detected, and due to unfavourable conditions ever since it has never been recovered and it remains a lost comet.