C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 4.2 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- COM — Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 2,120 AU
- Eccentricity
- 1
- Inclination
- 125°
- Perihelion distance
- 0.23 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4,250 AU
- Orbital period
- 35,800,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2450204.894
- Earth MOID
- 0.101 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 4 km across — 1.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 35,800,000 Earth days (about 98,015.1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 293.9 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2,120 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.