98P/Takamizawa
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 5.4 km
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- JFc — Jupiter-family Comet
- Semi-major axis
- 3.81 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.561
- Inclination
- 10.5°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.67 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 5.94 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,710 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2456509.977
- Earth MOID
- 0.66 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 5 km across — 1.4% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,710 Earth days (about 7.4 years).
- Sunlight needs about 32 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.