34D/Gale
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 4.94 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.761
- Inclination
- 11.7°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.18 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 8.7 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,020 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2429067.983
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- Yes
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 4,020 Earth days (about 11 years).
- Sunlight needs about 41 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 4.9 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.