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....

observers in January 2007. It was the brightest in over 40 years. A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion, generally...

Although it was undeniably a sungrazing comet, it was probably not part of the Kreutz family. Isaac Newton used the comet to test and verify Kepler's laws...

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

Comet ISON, formally known as C/2012 S1, was a sungrazing comet from the Oort cloud which was discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky (Віталь...

Heliospheric Observatory Marsden B.G. (1967), "The Sungrazing Comet Group", The Sungrazing Comet Group I, vol. 72, The Astronomical Journal, p. 1170...

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

amateur astronomer. He has discovered six comets, including C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground-based observation...

(September 1974), the Comet Kohoutek is mentioned as having freed Magneto from imprisonment within the Earth's core. Comet ISON – sungrazing comet that disintegrated...

long-period, sungrazing comet, which will reach perihelion on January 13, 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun. It could become the brightest comet of 2025...

a sungrazing comet, one which passes extremely close to the surface of the Sun. For many hours on either side of its perihelion passage, the comet was...

temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered by ATLAS-HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October...

satellite in space to discover a comet in general and a sungrazing comet in particular. In total, 9 sungrazing comets, all belonging to the Kreutz group...

Zdenek; Chodas, Paul W. (2008). "A New Orbit Determination for Bright Sungrazing Comet of 1843". the Astrophysical Journal. 687 (2): 1415–1422. Bibcode:2008ApJ...

brightest, Comet Lovejoy had an apparent magnitude of between –3 and –4, which is about as bright as the planet Venus. It is the brightest sungrazing comet ever...

periodic comets—Unnumbered comets with a period of less than 200 years List of numbered comets—Comets numbered by the Minor Planet Center Sungrazing comets Kreutz...

orbits of several sungrazing comets, which revealed that they were all related objects, produced when a very large Sun-grazing comet fragmented several...

into many pieces, forming the Great Comet of 1882 and Comet Ikeya–Seki as well as over 4000 small sungrazing comets observed by the SOHO space telescope...

Earth by a comet. However, if approaches deduced from orbit calculations are included, it may have been beaten by a small sungrazing comet, P/1999 J6...

Comet C/2012 E2 (SWAN) was a Kreutz group sungrazing comet discovered by Vladimir Bezugly in publicly available images taken by the SWAN instrument (Solar...

values. Hale–Bopp has about a 15% chance of eventually becoming a sungrazing comet through this process. If such is the case, it could undergo huge mass...

0.0229 AU (8.92 LD) for Comet Tempel–Tuttle in 1366. Orbital calculations show that P/1999 J6 (SOHO), a faint sungrazing comet and confirmed short-period...

Lacruz J, Riesen TE (2013). Post-discovery Photometric Follow-up of Sungrazing Comet C/2012 S1 ISON (PDF). 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference....

the comet. The comet's sudden appearance very close to the Sun and rapid subsequent decline in brightness both pointed to it being a sungrazing comet, and...

Observatory conjectured that Ikeya–Seki was a sungrazing comet. Subsequent and more accurate computations of the comet's orbital properties showed a close similarity...

May 2020). "Comet of the Week: Tewfik X/1882 K1". RocketSTEM.org. Retrieved 5 November 2024. B. G. Marsden (1967). "The Sungrazing Comet group". The Astronomical...

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

Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a short-period sungrazing comet discovered on May 12, 1986, by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta...

Hotshots". sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-01-23. "A SOHO and Sungrazing Comet FAQ". home.earthlink.net. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05...

The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylight Comet, was a comet which appeared in January 1910...