66P/du Toit
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 6.02 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.787
- Inclination
- 18.7°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.29 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 10.8 AU
- Orbital period
- 5,400 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458258.969
- Earth MOID
- 0.438 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 5,400 Earth days (about 14.8 years).
- Sunlight needs about 50 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 6 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 1.3 AU from the Sun — 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.