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It will, by now, be pretty obvious that the classes of objects to which we give the names of “asteroid’’ and “comet” are not at all distinct. We have seen asteroids that look and behave in ways more traditionally associated with comets and we have noted comets that are almost indistinguishable from asteroids and other bodies which seem to pass back and forth from one class to the other.
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Seargent, D.A.J. (2017). Comet Oddities: Different Objects Sharing the Same Orbit. In: Weird Comets and Asteroids. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56558-3_3
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