49P/Arend-Rigaux
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 8.48 km
- Rotation period
- 13.45 hours
- Albedo
- 0.028
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.57 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.6
- Inclination
- 19.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.43 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.71 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,460 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2455853.798
- Earth MOID
- 0.465 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 8 km across — 2.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,460 Earth days (about 6.7 years).
- Sunlight needs about 30 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.6 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.