89P/Russell 2
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 2.8 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.75 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.408
- Inclination
- 12.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.22 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.29 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,660 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2457737.359
- Earth MOID
- 1.24 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 2,660 Earth days (about 7.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 31 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.8 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.