59P/Kearns-Kwee
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 1.58 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.49 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.476
- Inclination
- 9.34°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.35 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 6.63 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,480 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2454900.122
- Earth MOID
- 1.38 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 2 km across — 0.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,480 Earth days (about 9.5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 37 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.5 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.