24P/Schaumasse
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 2.6 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.06 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.708
- Inclination
- 11.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.18 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 6.93 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,980 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461049.059
- Earth MOID
- 0.263 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- About 3 km across — 0.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,980 Earth days (about 8.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 34 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.