It seems that short-period comets come from the Kuiper Belt. In general, their orbits are not highly inclined to the ecliptic, though some, notably Halley's Comet, have retrograde motion. Comets of much longer period are thought to come from the Oort Cloud, a huge spherical cloud of debris...
Capture statistics of short-period comets: implications for Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9. Icarus 121, 207-224.KARY, D. M., AND L. DONES 1996. Capture statistics of short-period comets: Implications for Comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9. Icarus, 121, 207-224....
The Kuiper belt is the source of what are known as short-period comets—those that come past pretty regularly—of which the most famous is Halley’s comet. The more reclusive long-period comets (among them the recent visitors Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake) come from the much more distant Oort ...
A novel mechanism for outbursts of Comet 17P/Holmes and other short-period cometsRichard Miles
Evidence from intermittent activity displayed by the nucleus is indicative of a possible 44-day rotation period.Miles, Richarddoi:10.48550/arXiv.1006.4019Richard MilesPhysicsMiles, R.: Sloan-r' photometry of Comet 17P/Holmes beyond 3.8 AU: An observing methodology for short- period comets far ...
The 1910 Halley’s Comet hysteria. Darwin is working as a page at a Seattle luxury hotel while guests gather on the roof to view the comet’s passing, after alarmist rumors have been spread. A few of the more intrepid guests wore gas masks atop their heads like party hats, while many...
The Kuiper belt is the source of what are known as short-period comets—those that come past pretty regularly—of which the most famous is Halley’s comet. The more reclusive long-period comets (among them the recent visitors Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake) come from the much more distant Oort ...
Miles, R.: Sloan-r' photometry of Comet 17P/Holmes beyond 3.8 AU: An observing methodology for short- period comets far from perihelion, Proc. 28th Annual Conf. Soc. for Astron. Sciences, 19-21 May 2009, Big Bear, California, pp. 51-62, 2009....
COMETSRELIEF modelsCOMPUTER simulationHEAT conductionUsing numerical models, we have studied what depth of the outer layer the comet nuclei are degassed to when they are in orbits whose perihelion is close to the Sun for tens of years. The problem is topical, because it helps to understand how...
medium-period cometsJupiter familyAn attempt is made to determine the spatial location of the main source of short-period comet nuclei. Numerical calculations for the orbital evolution of Jupiter family comets, medium-period comets, and Centaurs are used to show that the orbits of small solar ...