83D/Russell 1
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.34 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.517
- Inclination
- 22.7°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.61 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.06 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,230 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2446251.729
- Earth MOID
- 0.601 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- One orbit takes about 2,230 Earth days (about 6.1 years).
- Sunlight needs about 28 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.3 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
- At its closest it comes 1.6 AU from the Sun — 1.6 times the Earth–Sun distance.
Worked out from this object's official values.