82P/Gehrels 3
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 1.46 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- ETc — Encke-type Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.14 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.123
- Inclination
- 1.13°
- Perihelion distance
- 3.63 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.65 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,070 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2452151.788
- Earth MOID
- 2.64 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 1 km across — 0.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,070 Earth days (about 8.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 34 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.