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a. (context astronomy English) Having an orbital period of less than 200 years, especially said of comet
Usage examples of "short-period".
The issue, basically, was whether the shower of new comets that had been born with Athena provided adequate evidence that the previously existing short-period comets—the ones with aphelia showing a statistical clustering at the distance of Jupiter's orbit—had originated in a similar episode involving Venus.
The issue, basically, was whether the shower of new comets that had been born with Athena provided adequate evidence that the previously existing short-period comets-the ones with aphelia showing a statistical clustering at the distance of Jupiter’s orbit-had originated in a similar episode involving Venus.
The EK Belt is believed to be the source of many of the short-period comets that from time to time visit the inner solar system.
Short-period comets-like Halley's-arise in the Kuiper Belt, respond to gravitational tugs, sweep into the inner part of the Solar System, grow their tails, and grace our skies.
But the temblors recorded by the seismographs were discrete short-period shocks, like explosions rather than marsquakes.