List of hyperbolic comets

The following is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System. Many of these comets may come from the Oort cloud, or perhaps even have interstellar origin. Due to the Oort Cloud not being gravitationally attracted enough to the Sun to form into a fairly thin disk, like the inner Solar System, comets originating from it can come from roughly any orientation, and many even orbit retrograde. By definition, a hyperbolic orbit means that the comet will only travel through the Solar System once, with the Sun acting as a gravitational slingshot, sending the comet hurtling out of the Solar System entirely unless its eccentricity is otherwise changed. Comets orbiting in this way still originate from the Solar System, however. Typically comets in the Oort Cloud are thought to have roughly circular orbits around the Sun, but their orbital velocity is so slow that they are easily perturbed by passing stars and the galactic tide.