72P/Denning-Fujikawa
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.35 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.82
- Inclination
- 9.23°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.781 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 7.91 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,310 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2456850.780
- Earth MOID
- 0.0882 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 3,310 Earth days (about 9.1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 36 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 0.8 AU from the Sun — 78.1% of the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.