D/1993 F2-A (Shoemaker-Levy 9)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 6.86 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.216
- Inclination
- 6°
- Perihelion distance
- 5.38 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 8.35 AU
- Orbital period
- 6,570 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2449435.603
- Earth MOID
- 4.37 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 6,570 Earth days (about 18 years).
- Sunlight needs about 57 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 6.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 5.4 AU from the Sun — 5.4 times the Earth–Sun distance.