26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 2.6 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.02 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.64
- Inclination
- 22.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.09 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.96 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,920 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2456479.504
- Earth MOID
- 0.0848 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 3 km across — 0.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,920 Earth days (about 5.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 25 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.