47P/Ashbrook-Jackson
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 5.6 km
- Rotation period
- 15.6 hours
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.12 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.319
- Inclination
- 13°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.81 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.44 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,060 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460975.170
- Earth MOID
- 1.8 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 6 km across — 1.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,060 Earth days (about 8.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 34 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.