... Credit Copyright: LASCO , SOHO Consortium , NRL , ESA , NASA Explanation: Arcing toward a fiery fate, this Sungrazer comet was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft's Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) on Dec. 23rd, 1996. ...
... Comets and asteroids on sungrazing orbits. ... Some papers on gravitational mechanisms that can gradually but systematically change comet/asteroid orbits to be sungrazing: . ...
... RT @SungrazerComets : Here comes another one! Another fairly bright Kreutz sungrazer racing to its demise in @ ESA /@ NASA SOHO /LASCO C3 http:/? ...
... This kamikaze comet is probably a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family. ... 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at ...
... It was one of a family of comets known as sungrazers, believed to be remnants of a large comet that broke up perhaps 900 years ... Called Comet SOHO 6, it is one of seven sungrazers discovered so far by LASCO. ...
... claims that flares and coronal mass ejections are caused by sungrazer comets; comets that actually pass very close to or even ... In fact, the SOHO satellite sees coronal mass ejections every day, but very rarely does it see sungrazing comets. ...
... Астрономы даже выделили кометы, орбиты которых опасно приближаются к Солнцу, в категорию "sungrazer" (можно перевести как "животное, пасущееся радом с Солнцем"). ...