8P/Tuttle
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 4.5 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFC — Jupiter-family Comet*
- Semi-major axis
- 5.7 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.82
- Inclination
- 55°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.03 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 10.4 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,970 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2454492.518
- Earth MOID
- 0.0953 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 5 km across — 1.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,970 Earth days (about 13.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 47 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.