3I/ATLAS
3I/ATLAS = C/2025 N1 (ATLAS)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- HYP — Hyperbolic Comet
- Semi-major axis
- -0.264 AU
- Eccentricity
- 6.12
- Inclination
- 175°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.35 AU
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460977.942
- Earth MOID
- 0.362 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- At its closest it comes 1.4 AU from the Sun — 1.4 times the Earth–Sun distance.
- Eccentricity 6.12 — above 1 (hyperbolic), so it passes the Sun once and does not come back.
Worked out from this object's official values.