C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- COM — Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 358 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.999
- Inclination
- 129°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.295 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 717 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,480,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2459034.179
- Earth MOID
- 0.363 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 2,480,000 Earth days (about 6,789.9 years).
- Sunlight needs about 49.6 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 358 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 0.3 AU from the Sun — 29.5% of the Earth–Sun distance.