67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Distance from Earth
5.3714 AU
803,554,216 km
Light travel time
44m 40s
at light speed
Sun distance
☉ 4.680 AU
Est. magnitude (JPL M1·K1)
21.6
Large telescope / imaging
Computed 2026-11-03 22:44 UTC · planets astronomy-engine (VSOP87) · comets JPL elements (two-body) · NASA JPL Small-Body Database (sbdb.api) 2026-10-24 · Elements epoch 2015-10-10 · two-body approximation (no planetary perturbations)
Physical data
- Diameter
- 3.4 km
- Rotation period
- 12.7613 hours
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.46 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.641
- Inclination
- 7.04°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.24 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.68 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,350 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457247.589
- Earth MOID
- 0.257 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 3 km across — 0.9% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,350 Earth days (about 6.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 29 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.5 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.