- Sun's surface.
Although small sungrazers can
completely evaporate during such a
close approach to the Sun,
larger sungrazers can
survive many perihelion...
- The
Kreutz sungrazers (/ˈkrɔɪts/ KROYTS) are a
family of
sungrazing comets,
characterized by
orbits taking them
extremely close to the Sun at perihelion...
- 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 was...
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- kilometers.
Although small sungrazers can be
completely evaporated during such a
close approach to the Sun,
larger sungrazers can
survive many perihelion...
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which is in the
public domain. "Welcome to
Sungrazer".
sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil.
Retrieved July 18, 2023. This
article incorporates...
-
formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period
comet and
Kreutz sungrazer. It was
discovered in
November 2011 by
Australian amateur astronomer Terry...
