96P/Machholz 1
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 6.4 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFC — Jupiter-family Comet*
- Semi-major axis
- 3.04 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.959
- Inclination
- 58.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.124 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.95 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,930 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458054.461
- Earth MOID
- 0.333 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 6 km across — 1.6% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,930 Earth days (about 5.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 25 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.