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The Shortage of Long-Period Comets in Elliptical Orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Edgar Everhart
Edgar Everhart*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Denver

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Based on the number of ‘new’ comets seen on near-parabolic orbits, one can predict the number of comets that should be found on definitely elliptical orbits on their subsequent returns. We show here that about three out of four of these returning comets are not observed.

Type
Part VI: Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 273 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

References

Marsden, B.G., Sekanina, Z., and Everhart, E. “Astron. J.” 83, pp. 64–71.Google Scholar