Comet Borrelly

Comet

A bowling pin shaped comet photographed at close range by the Deep Space 1 probe in 2001.

Facts

TypeComet
Distance from the Sun3.61 AU
Diameter5 km
Mass2.00 × 10^13 kg
Temperature-126°C
Orbital period2,502 days
Apparent magnitude12
Redshift0
Discovered1904

Comet Borrelly in context

At 5 km across, Comet Borrelly is less than a thousandth of the diameter of Earth.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It keeps an average distance of 3.61 AU from the Sun, so sunlight takes 30 minutes to reach it.

A single orbit takes 6.9 years.

An average temperature of 147 K works out at -126 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

It has been on record since 1904.

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