43P/Wolf-Harrington
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 3.6 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.31 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.439
- Inclination
- 9.39°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.42 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 6.2 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,270 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457628.599
- Earth MOID
- 1.45 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 4 km across — 0.9% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,270 Earth days (about 9 years).
- Sunlight needs about 36 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.