Though the comet is very old, it was just discovered in 2023, when it approached the inner solar system on its highly elliptical orbit for the first time in recorded history.

If it was the same comet then its path must have bent a great deal. Simon shows a diagram of an elliptical orbit drawn by Newton. Newton realised that a force, he called gravity, must have been ...

OLBERS' COMET ... that elliptical elements would be found, but this remark apparently was merely intended to imply that the grasp which a long course of observation would afford upon the orbit ...

Some orbits are ever so slightly elliptical ... comets and asteroids tend to follow orbits with very high eccentricities. They emerge from the farthest reaches of the solar system, way beyond the ...