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The orbits of periodic comets and the orbits of planets have the same geometric shape.
Every closed gravitational orbit is an ellipse. But the eccentricity of the cometary ellipses
are almost all greater than the eccentricities of the planetary ones.
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∙ 8y ago
Wiki User
∙ 8y agoAn ellipse. The orbits of planets are also ellipses. In the case of comets, the ellipses tend to have a higher excentricity, which in practice means that the ellipses are more stretched out - look less like a circle.
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Planet's orbit are nearly circular What shape is a comet's?
The shape of a comet's orbit is called an ellipse. This shape is a sort of narrowed circle and comets move in this shape around the sun.
What is the shape of a comet's orbit around the sun?
oval
What shape is the orbit of a comet around the sun?
oval
Is the shape of Halley's orbit?
Halley's Comet travels in a very long, narrow ellipse.
What shape does a comet orbit in?
a comet orbits in a donut shaped path. some comets even go out of our solar system and back into it, past our sun.
What shape does a comet's orbit?
a comet orbits in a donut shaped path. some comets even go out of our solar system and back into it, past our sun.
Why is a comet's orbit considered a cycle?
A comets orbit is considered a cycle because a comet circles back in an elliptical orbit.
Why is a comet orbit considered a cycle?
A comets orbit is considered a cycle because a comet circles back in an elliptical orbit.
What is the path of comet around the sun called?
It is called an orbit. A comet has an eccentric or parabolic orbit.
Do comets orbit in the shape of a planets orbit?
A comet that's bound to the sun and appears periodically is in an elliptical orbit. A comet that whizzes through the solar system only once and then leaves for good is in a hyperbolic orbit. If the comet is periodic but with an exceptionally long period ... thousands of years e.g. ... then we can't tell, from the small part of its orbit that we can see, whether it's elliptical or hyperbolic.
Shape of a comet's orbit?
Comets' orbits are elliptical, like all orbiting bodies.
How long does in take for haileys comet take to orbit the earth?
Halley's Comet orbits the sun, not the earth, roughly every 76 years.
