58P/Jackson-Neujmin
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.09 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.661
- Inclination
- 13.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.39 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 6.79 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,020 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2453015.472
- Earth MOID
- 0.392 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 3,020 Earth days (about 8.3 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.
- At its closest it comes 1.4 AU from the Sun — 1.4 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.