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Nongravitational Forces on Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2018

B. G. Marsden

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The study of the nongravitational effects on comets began slightly more than a century and a half ago. As is well known, Encke (1819) demonstrated that comet 1819 I had a revolution period of not more than a few years and that the same comet had also been observed in 1786, 1795 and 1805. The observations clearly required that the revolution period be about 3.3 years, and Encke went on to remark that, after approximate allowance had been made for the perturbations by the planets, the average revolution period seemed to be 1207.9 days between 1795 and 1805, but only 1207.3 days between 1805 and 1819. As a result of a more refined computation of the planetary perturbations, the following year he (Encke 1820) was able to confirm these figures and find in addition that the average period between 1786 and 1795 was as much as 1208.1 days.

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