Long-period

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of non-periodic. not-comparable

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non-periodic

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"Comet Siding Spring is one of the long-period comets, those that require more than 200 years to orbit the Sun. These comets come from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of about a trillion ancient, icy objects located hundreds to thousands of times farther than the planets' orbits."

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longer-period

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