39P/Oterma
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- CTc — Chiron-type Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 7.4 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.228
- Inclination
- 1.48°
- Perihelion distance
- 5.71 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 9.09 AU
- Orbital period
- 7,360 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460043.784
- Earth MOID
- 4.72 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 7,360 Earth days (about 20.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 62 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 7.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 5.7 AU from the Sun — 5.7 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.