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    Comet (redirect from Short-period comet)
    years. Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper belt or its associated scattered disc, which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. Long-period comets are...
    144 KB (15,283 words) - 09:34, 27 October 2024
  • adjusted and are in equilibrium. The long-run contrasts with the short-run, in which there are some constraints and markets are not fully in equilibrium...
    20 KB (2,746 words) - 19:20, 18 July 2024
  • The long nineteenth century is a term for the 125-year period beginning with the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, and ending with the outbreak of...
    8 KB (858 words) - 22:51, 2 May 2024
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    magnetic white dwarf. The white dwarf spin period is significantly shorter than the binary orbital period and can sometimes be detected as a photometric...
    51 KB (6,578 words) - 02:05, 8 November 2024
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    Long-period tides are gravitational tides with periods longer than one day, typically with amplitudes of a few centimeters or less. Long-period tidal...
    12 KB (1,625 words) - 07:07, 10 October 2024
  • tripartite periodization of Western European history into 'classical', 'middle' and 'modern'. Some popularized periodizations using the terms long or short by...
    15 KB (1,851 words) - 23:43, 31 October 2024
  • is slightly shorter than the period for the Sun to complete one circuit along the ecliptic (a sidereal year) because the inclined axis and equatorial plane...
    17 KB (2,059 words) - 22:31, 24 October 2024
  • the short run, others to the long run. There are standard acronyms for each cost concept, expressed in terms of the following descriptors: SR = short run...
    24 KB (3,548 words) - 06:21, 10 March 2024
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    The descriptive term long-period variable star refers to various groups of cool luminous pulsating variable stars. It is frequently abbreviated to LPV...
    9 KB (1,014 words) - 23:14, 16 July 2024
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    occur and where they start and end are also key signs. Volcanic seismicity has three major forms: short-period earthquake, long-period earthquake, and harmonic...
    25 KB (3,257 words) - 17:21, 22 April 2024
  • An ultra-short period (USP) planet is a type of exoplanet with an orbital period of less than one Earth day. At this short distance, tidal interactions...
    5 KB (708 words) - 14:33, 21 August 2024
  • oscillations, a long-period oscillation called a phugoid mode and a short-period oscillation referred to as the short-period mode. The longer period mode, called...
    10 KB (1,461 words) - 22:54, 15 July 2024
  • A long-period fiber grating couples light from a guided mode into forward propagating cladding modes where it is lost due to absorption and scattering...
    3 KB (362 words) - 14:43, 20 March 2018
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    earliest known period on the alluvial plain although it is likely earlier periods exist obscured under the alluvium. In the south it has a very long duration...
    69 KB (7,963 words) - 21:53, 5 November 2024
  • Long-term support (LTS) is a product lifecycle management policy in which a stable release of computer software is maintained for a longer period of time...
    31 KB (1,834 words) - 14:18, 9 October 2024
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    the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra...
    155 KB (19,535 words) - 05:00, 29 October 2024
  • lengths of light and dark periods. They are classified under three groups according to the photoperiods: short-day plants, long-day plants, and day-neutral...
    22 KB (2,676 words) - 18:09, 14 October 2024
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    The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan...
    89 KB (10,940 words) - 19:36, 30 October 2024
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    territory and over a long period. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period. However...
    50 KB (1,988 words) - 14:02, 6 November 2024
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    another and are often derived from a short-beaked ancestor and do not always share common derived characteristics. For this reason, they are no longer considered...
    39 KB (4,921 words) - 17:11, 28 September 2024
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