10P/Tempel 2
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 10.6 km
- Rotation period
- 8.93 hours
- Albedo
- 0.022
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.06 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.538
- Inclination
- 12°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.42 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.71 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,960 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457340.772
- Earth MOID
- 0.405 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 11 km across — 2.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,960 Earth days (about 5.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 25 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.