7P/Pons-Winnecke
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 5.2 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.42 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.638
- Inclination
- 22.3°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.24 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.6 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,310 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457053.028
- Earth MOID
- 0.226 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 5 km across — 1.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,310 Earth days (about 6.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 28 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.