69P/Taylor
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.89 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.414
- Inclination
- 22°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.28 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.5 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,800 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458560.979
- Earth MOID
- 1.31 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- 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.
- At its closest it comes 2.3 AU from the Sun — 2.3 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.