65P/Gunn
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 10.8 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.88 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.25
- Inclination
- 9.18°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.91 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.85 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,800 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458044.302
- Earth MOID
- 1.91 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 11 km across — 2.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,800 Earth days (about 7.7 years).
- Sunlight needs about 32 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.9 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.