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What does a comet orbit?

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Comets are small bodies of rock and ice which are in a highly eccentric orbit directly around our sun.

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How does comet orbits and comets orbit?
in an elliptical (oval) orbit around the sun, with its tail pointing in the oposite direction of the sun.
What is a comet's orbit?
There are two basic shapes for the orbits of comets: Elliptical if the comet returnsHyperbolic if it just comes by once and never returns again
What is the orbit of a comet?
Comets in the solar system follow elliptical orbits around the Sun.
What do comet's orbit?
The Sun
What do comets orbit?
It revolves around the sun.