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Long-period comets have periods of over 200 years.The longest would probably be somewhere around a million years (comparable to the orbital periods of objects in the Oort cloud); much longer than that, and it will go away far enough to be captured by the gravitational field of other stars.

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Short period comets have a period of less than 200 years

Long period comets have a period of more than 200 years.

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