Periodic comet

(Astron.)

a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun.

periodic comet

A comet that has been seen to orbit the Sun more than once. The names of such comets are prefixed by P/, as in P/Halley.

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