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....

claimed that the orbits of several sungrazing comets were related and likely produced when a large Sun-grazing comet fragmented hundreds of years previously...

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...

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...

Southern Comet Disappears", New York Times, February 27, 1887 Kronk, p.591 Sekanina, Z. Statistical Investigation and Modeling of Sungrazing Comets Discovered...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

on, stating: "I got him back, him and that boy of his" Comet ISON – sungrazing comet that disintegrated upon passing close to the Sun in 2013 C/1989 X1...

designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered from the ATLAS–HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28...

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

Comet du Toit, formal designation C/1945 X1, is a sungrazing comet that was observed four times by South African astronomer, Daniel du Toit, on December...

they were fragments of an earlier giant sungrazing comet that broken up several centuries prior. These comets, alongside Ikeya–Seki, White–Ortiz–Bolelli...

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

Hotshots". sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov. Retrieved 23 January 2019. "A SOHO and Sungrazing Comet FAQ". home.earthlink.net. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012...

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

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...

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

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...

to split into many pieces, forming the Great Comet of 1843 as well as over 4000 small sungrazing comets observed by the SOHO space telescope. It is a...

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...

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

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

August 2008. "Big comet, big CME... big coincidence?". sungrazing.nrl.navy.mil. Sungrazing Comets. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October...

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...

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...

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...

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...