About C/2022 B4
C/2022 B4 is a trash comet. It swings within 1.378 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.
Trash comet 6 EP
C/2022 B4
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Live ephemeris
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Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Comet +6
- Catalogue designation only +0
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Comet · +6
- Catalogue designation only
Trivia
How we found it
- Designation. Known only by its catalogue designation — no name yet.
Cosmic context
- Wild orbit. Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.
- Tail. Its tail always points away from the Sun, never trailing behind its motion.
Properties
- eccentricity
- 0.9964
- inclination
- 20.04
- name
- C/2022 B4
- number only
- yes
- orbit class
- COM
- perihelion au
- 1.3781
- semi major au
- 382.8
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, C/2022 B4 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why C/2022 B4 is a trash comet
C/2022 B4 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Comet and Catalogue designation only — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.