Orbital-Period Determination As an Indispensable Tool to Study the Pedigree of a Sungrazing Comet

Zdenek Sekanina

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-08-03

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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