63P/Wild 1
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 2.9 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 5.6 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.651
- Inclination
- 19.8°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.95 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 9.24 AU
- Orbital period
- 4,830 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2456393.596
- Earth MOID
- 0.963 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 3 km across — 0.7% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 4,830 Earth days (about 13.2 years).
- Sunlight needs about 47 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.6 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.