Abstract
The expression: “Capture of a comet” may lead thoughts primarily to the single encounter mechanism, when a comet happens to pass very close to Jupiter and is at once “captured” into Jupiter’s family of comets, getting an aphelion just outside Jupiter’s orbit, but I would rather suggest that any evolution from a long-period orbit far from the Sun to a short-period orbit, making use of different kinds of perturbations, may be termed a “capture process”, and it is evident that single encounters must play a rather limited role in such evolutions.
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