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Comets can be classified by their orbits as long-period and short-period comets, according to whether their periods are longer or shorter than two hundred years. The long-period comets have revolution times ranging from two hundred years to 107 y. The short-period comets are concentrated in a narrow interval; 60% have periods between 5 and 6.5 y.
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Oort, J.H. (1990). Orbital Distribution of Comets. In: Huebner, W.F. (eds) Physics and Chemistry of Comets. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74805-9_6
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