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P: Periodic (or short-period) comet with solar orbit of less than 200 years. A: Asteroid or minor planet that was previously identified as a comet. X: Comet whose orbit can't be computed.

Comets orbit the sun in elliptical paths and are "considered to be remnants from the formation of the solar system and are thought to contain clues about the origins of the universe," NASA added.

3I/ATLAS is most certainly a comet, like 2I/Borisov. Currently just within the orbit of Jupiter, it is already being heated enough by the Sun's rays that a coma of gases has developed around the ...