Long-period Comet

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5217. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Comets

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A comet whose period is more than 200 years. Comets with periods of less than 200 years are termed periodic comets or short-period comets. Long-period comets are also `periodic', but a comet can be incontrovertibly classified as periodic only when it has been observed on at least two returns; the choice of 200 years as a cut-off is traditional, but arbitrary. It happens that no comet calculated t...

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