sungrazing comet

Hale-Bopp has about a 15% chance of eventually becoming a sungrazing comet through this process.

It thus became the first known sungrazing comet.

Though it certainly appeared brighter than most sungrazing comets of the Kreutz group.

The Solar Maximum Mission satellite during 1987-1989 discovered 10 sungrazing comets.

Subsequent orbital studies have determined that it was a Sungrazing comet, one which passes extremely close to the surface of the Sun.

Although it was undeniably a sungrazing comet, it was probably not part of the Kreutz family.

For example, such a mechanism can produce sungrazing comets, because a large eccentricity with a constant semimajor axis results in a small perihelion.

Sungrazing comets

Origin of sungrazing comets

Sungrazing comet

The shower originated from the breakup of what are now the Marsden and Kracht Sungrazing comets.

This does not include objects like sungrazing comets which, although they have a perihelion inside the orbit of Mercury, have a far greater semi-major axis.

C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), a sungrazing comet discovered by Lovejoy

ISON sungrazing comet

Marsden B.G. (1989), The sungrazing comet group.

Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of sungrazing comets named after Heinrich Kreutz

A Sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion, sometimes within a few thousand kilometres of the Sun's surface.

C/2012 S1 (ISON), a sungrazing comet

Marsden B.G. (1967), The sungrazing comet group, Astronomical Journal, v. 72, p. 1170

SOHO and Sungrazing Comet FAQ

He has discovered three comets, including C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground-based observation in over 40 years.

As the comet receded from the Sun, orbital studies showed that Pereyra had been a sungrazing comet, passing just 60,000 kilometres from the Sun's surface.

The satellite provides a constant view of the immediate solar vicinity, and SOHO has now discovered hundreds of new sungrazing comets, some just a few metres across.

The NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign at Sungrazing Comets

11 May - Polish thirteen-year-old astronomy lover Rafał Reszelewski discovers Sungrazing Comets Kreutz group comet as the youngest in the project.