Short-period comets like Halley Comet a. return to the Oort Cloud during each of their orbits b. come back again and again at predictable intervals. c. have a long tail visiable during their entire orbit around the Sun d. can never be observed without a telescope e. you can't fool me, the only short-period comet we know is Halley

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