64P/Swift-Gehrels
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 3.2 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.46 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.687
- Inclination
- 8.95°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.39 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 7.52 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,440 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458426.412
- Earth MOID
- 0.44 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 3 km across — 0.8% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,440 Earth days (about 9.4 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.