2I/Borisov
2I/Borisov = C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- HYP — Hyperbolic Comet
- Semi-major axis
- -0.851 AU
- Eccentricity
- 3.36
- Inclination
- 44.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.01 AU
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458826.053
- Earth MOID
- 1.09 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- At its closest it comes 2 AU from the Sun — 2 times the Earth–Sun distance.
- Eccentricity 3.36 — above 1 (hyperbolic), so it passes the Sun once and does not come back.