Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

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Due to something that is called orbital precession ... accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around the perihelion (during those ...