12P/Pons-Brooks
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Distancia a la Tierra
9.9173 AU
1,483,614,388 km
Tiempo de la luz
1h 22m
a la velocidad de la luz
Distancia al Sol
☉ 9.072 AU
Magnitud est. (JPL M1·K1)
24.3
Telescopio grande / imagen
Computed 2026-11-04 00:22 UTC · planets astronomy-engine (VSOP87) · comets JPL elements (two-body) · NASA JPL Small-Body Database (sbdb.api) 2026-10-24 · Elements epoch 2023-09-24 · two-body approximation (no planetary perturbations)
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- HTC — Halley-type Comet*
- Semi-major axis
- 17.2 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.955
- Inclination
- 74.2°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.781 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 33.6 AU
- Orbital period
- 26,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460421.631
- Earth MOID
- 0.18 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 26,000 Earth days (about 71.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 2.4 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 17.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 0.8 AU from the Sun — 78.1% of the Earth–Sun distance.