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Old 03-September-2003, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Pinemarten
Isn't this the first time we can observe any comet during its entire orbit?
I'm not so sure about that... there are comets with short enough periods (Encke?) that they never get terribly far away, and so the only time you couldn't track them is when they were behind the sun as seen from earth.
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