short-period comet

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word short-period comet. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word short-period comet, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say short-period comet in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word short-period comet you have here. The definition of the word short-period comet will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofshort-period comet, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: short period comet

English

Alternative forms

Noun

short-period comet (plural short-period comets)

  1. (astronomy) Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.
    • 2014, Panos Photinos, Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN:
      […] comets. Depending on their orbital period, comets are classified as short or long period comets. Short period comets have periods less than 200 years. For example, Halley's Comet is a short period comet, because it has a period of 76 years.
    • 2004, Neil McBride with Iain Gilmour, An Introduction to the Solar System, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 273:
      Some bodies in the Kuiper Belt will slowly evolve inwards, to Centaur orbits (as discussed in Section 7.3), from where they might evolve into short-period comet orbits under the influence of Jupiter (mainly) and Saturn. Thus orbital evolution […]

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia