Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

short-period comet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: short--pe-ri-od -comet
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.

Example Sentences

"[…] comets. Depending on their orbital period, comets are classified as short or long period comets. Short period comets have periods less than 200 years. For example, Halley's Comet is a short period comet, because it has a period of 76 years."
"Some bodies in the Kuiper Belt will slowly evolve inwards, to Centaur orbits (as discussed in Section 7.3), from where they might evolve into short-period comet orbits under the influence of Jupiter (mainly) and Saturn. Thus orbital evolution […]"

Inflected Forms

short-period comets (plural) short period comet (alternative)

Questions

What does short-period comet mean?: Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.

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