The Kreutz sungrazers (/ˈkrɔɪts/ KROYTS) are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion...

The Kreutz sungrazers are a group of comets descended from the breakup of a comet in about 326 AD. They are typically traveling less than 2 solar radii...

Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, and V. Comet Ikeya-Seki also led to separating the Kreutz sungrazers into two subgroups by Brian Marsden in 1967. One subgroup appears...

Solar System, and disintegrated. The comet had a similar orbit to the Kreutz sungrazers, which were created by the fragmentation of a large comet. The comet...

Comet) was a comet that is thought to possibly be the source of the Kreutz sungrazer family. The Great Comet was observed by Aristotle, Ephorus, and Callisthenes...

The Eclipse Comet of 1882, designated as X/1882 K1, was a Kreutz sungrazer comet that was spotted during the solar eclipse of May 17, 1882. It is sometimes...

Brandenburg, Germany 3635 Kreutz, a Mars-crossing asteroid Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of sungrazing comets named after Heinrich Kreutz Creutz (disambiguation)...

on board the SOHO spacecraft. It is recognized for being the first Kreutz sungrazer observed in SWAN imagery. On March 8, 2012, Ukrainian amateur astronomer...

Center Sungrazing comets Kreutz sungrazers Meyer group (below) Kracht group (below) Marsden group (below) Ungrouped sungrazers (below) After Edmond Halley...

was a bright comet which appeared in 1970. It was a member of the Kreutz sungrazers, a family of comets which resulted from the break-up of a large parent...

was a bright comet that appeared in 1963. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a group of comets that pass extremely close to the Sun. The comet...

fragmented several hundred years previously. The group is now known as the Kreutz Sungrazers, and has produced some of the brightest comets ever seen, including...

which became very bright in September 1882. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of comets which pass within 1 R☉ of the Sun's photosphere...

formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz sungrazer. It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer...

receded into the outer Solar System. Ikeya–Seki is a member of the Kreutz sungrazers, which are suggested to be fragments of a large comet which broke...

rapidly brightened to become a great comet. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of comets resulting from the breakup of a parent comet (X/1106...

Nachrichten, known for his study of bright sungrazing comets. The family of Kreutz sungrazers, fragments of a parent comet that broke up several centuries ago,...

sungrazing comets observed by the SOHO space telescope. It is a member of the Kreutz Group, known as Subfragment I, a split from an earlier large (~150 km) comet...

discovered in images from the SMM, all of which are members of the Kreutz sungrazer group. Significantly, the SMM's ACRIM instrument package showed that...

00 Comet Ikeya–Seki (1965) seen from Earth which was the brightest Kreutz Sungrazer of modern times −9.50 Iridium (satellite) flare seen from Earth maximum...

Sparta. It is suggested that the original comet associated with the Kreutz Sungrazers family of comets passes perihelion at this time. It is thought to...

asteroid (asteroids always within Earth's orbit) Groups of minor planets Kreutz sungrazer List of hypothetical Solar System objects List of Mercury-crossing...

result often observes sungrazing comets, including the Kreutz sungrazers. The Kreutz sungrazers originate from the progenitor of the Great Comet of 1106...

previous apparition of Comet Ikeya–Seki. Ikeya–Seki is a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family of comets. These are thought to all have originated from the...

Howard–Koomen–Michels, formally known as C/1979 Q1 (Solwind), was a large sungrazer that collided with the Sun on August 30, 1979. It is the only comet known...

started disintegrating. Such fragmentation events are very common for Kreutz Sungrazers. The comet continues to fade and did not reach naked eye visibility...

during January 1887. Later calculations indicated it to be part of the Kreutz Sungrazing group. It came to perihelion (closest approach to the center...

Sparta. It is suggested that the original comet associated with the Kreutz Sungrazers family of comets passes perihelion at this time. It is thought to...

thought to originate in the Oort cloud. Many comet groups, such as the Kreutz sungrazers, formed from the breakup of a single parent. Some comets with hyperbolic...

undergo huge mass loss, or break up into smaller pieces like the Kreutz sungrazers. It would also be extremely bright, due to a combination of closeness...