comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Rosetta's bilobed comet.
67P was orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission, revealing a porous, active nucleus.
- Orbit representation
- verified fallback
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 2 km
- Semi-major axis
- 3.462 AU
- Orbital period
- 6.443 Earth yearsKeplerian estimate from the catalogued semi-major axis.
- Eccentricity
- 0.641
- Inclination
- 7.04°
- Visual geometry
- bilobed
Orbital character
A strongly elongated path around the Sun
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko follows a catalogued path with a 3.462 AU semi-major axis, eccentricity 0.641, and 7.04° inclination. The resulting two-body period estimate is 6.443 Earth years; the representation notes below state the source epoch and precision boundary used by Explore.
Catalogue context
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko among its nearest Helios peers
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is linked with Halley, Hale–Bopp, Encke, NEOWISE, Tempel 1 inside the Helios comet selection. The grouping keeps adjacent reading coherent; it does not imply that these bodies share the same composition, origin, or present physical state.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A bundled frozen six-element preview preserves the documented body scope. It was not freshly re-fetched from SBDB in this build environment and must not be presented as an accurate or current ephemeris.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance