71P/Clark
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 1.36 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.14 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.495
- Inclination
- 9.44°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.59 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.69 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,030 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457934.867
- Earth MOID
- 0.579 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 1 km across — 0.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,030 Earth days (about 5.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.