87P/Bus
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 0.56 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- ETc — Encke-type Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.44 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.389
- Inclination
- 2.6°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.1 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 4.78 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,330 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2456646.401
- Earth MOID
- 1.1 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 560 m across — 0.1% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,330 Earth days (about 6.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 29 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.