94P/Russell 4
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Rotation period
- 20.7 hours
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- ETc — Encke-type Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.51 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.364
- Inclination
- 6.18°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.23 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.79 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,400 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457689.299
- Earth MOID
- 1.25 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 2,400 Earth days (about 6.6 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.
- One rotation takes about 20.7 hours.
Worked out from this object's official values.