Short-period comet splitting

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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jbaa..102..265h&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.102, no.5, p.265-268

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Short Period Comets

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A short-period comet has rightly a one in 300 chance per perihelion passage of splitting in two. It also has a typical inner solar system lifetime of 500 perihelion passages. Thus, most members of this comet group break in two at least once in their life. The fact that a typical short-period comet has been seen on average only four times explains why the only two known cases are P/Biela, and the parent of P/Neujmin 3 and P/Van Biesbroeck.

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