53P/Van Biesbroeck
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 6.66 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 5.4 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.551
- Inclination
- 6.61°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.43 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 8.38 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,590 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457509.333
- Earth MOID
- 1.42 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 7 km across — 1.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,590 Earth days (about 12.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 45 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.