14P/Wolf
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 4.66 km
- Rotation period
- 9.02 hours
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.26 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.356
- Inclination
- 27.9°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.74 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.78 AU
- Orbital period
- 3,210 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2458089.488
- Earth MOID
- 1.76 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 5 km across — 1.2% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 3,210 Earth days (about 8.8 years).
- Sunlight needs about 35 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.