13P/Olbers
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- HTC — Halley-type Comet*
- Semi-major axis
- 16.7 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.93
- Inclination
- 44.6°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.17 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 32.2 AU
- Orbital period
- 24,900 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460492.225
- Earth MOID
- 0.47 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 24,900 Earth days (about 68.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 2.3 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 16.7 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 1.2 AU from the Sun — 1.2 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.