88P/Howell
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 4.4 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.11 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.564
- Inclination
- 4.38°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.35 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.86 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2459119.082
- Earth MOID
- 0.345 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 2,000 Earth days (about 5.5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.