How can it be that the orbits of comets, which almost coincide over hundreds of millions of kilometers from the Sun
November 10, 2020 | Education
| How can it be that the orbits of comets, which almost coincide over hundreds of millions of kilometers from the Sun, can have periods that differ from each other by hundreds of years?
At eccentricities close to 1, the ellipses that almost coincide near the focus have very different semi-major axes.
