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 4200 years or 2300 years before it comes back? --rmhermen
 :Just to note this is now answered in the article - its period was 4200 years but is now 2380 due to gravitational interaction with Jupiter. [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 16:39, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 :: I assume from reading the article and the above comment that this means its return will be 2380 years from 1997?  Article altered accordingly to remove time-sensitive reference.  --[[User:RobertG|RobertG]] &#9836; [[User talk:RobertG|talk]] 6 July 2005 10:12 (UTC)
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 4200 years or 2300 years before it comes back? --rmhermen
 :Just to note this is now answered in the article - its period was 4200 years but is now 2380 due to gravitational interaction with Jupiter. [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 16:39, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 :: I assume from reading the article and the above comment that this means its return will be 2380 years from 1997?  Article altered accordingly to remove time-sensitive reference.  --[[User:RobertG|RobertG]] &#9836; [[User talk:RobertG|talk]] 6 July 2005 10:12 (UTC)
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