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Caption: Figure 10.
The evolution of 450P’s perihelion distance (q, blue curve) and semimajor axis (a, gold/orange curve) from 1500 CE to 2500 CE using 50 clone orbital integrations. The recent a-jump after the 1992 close approach to Saturn is easily seen by the rapid decrease in both a and q.
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