Typhon
42355 Typhon (2002 CR46)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 192 km
- Rotation period
- 5 hours
- Albedo
- 0.05
- Absolute magnitude H
- 7.63 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TNO — TransNeptunian Object
- Semi-major axis
- 37.8 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.537
- Inclination
- 2.43°
- Perihelion distance
- 17.5 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 58.1 AU
- Orbital period
- 84,800 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2453864.372
- Earth MOID
- 16.5 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 192 km across — 48% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 84,800 Earth days (about 232.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 5.2 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 37.8 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.