SpazePeriodic comet
Encke’s Comet
The comet with the shortest known period, 3.3 years. Its debris gives us the Taurid meteors.
- Size
- 5 km
- Orbit
- 3.3 years
- Distance from Sun
- 0.3 to 4.1 AU
- Day
- 11.1 hours
- Reflects
- 5% of sunlight
Can we live on Encke’s Comet?
Air: only a faint trace of H₂O, CO, far too thin to breathe. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Ground: Ice and dust.
Atmosphere
- H₂O
- CO
Measured by spectra