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Question about sungrazing comets
Canopus
post Jan 22 2010, 02:57 PM
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VAPORIZED! ONE LESS COMET: As expected, yesterday's sungrazing comet discovered by STEREO did not survive its close encounter with the sun. One cosmic snowball went in--none came out. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) made this movie of the death plunge.


From spaceweather.com today.

I did Google a bit, and am curious as to approximately how many sungrazers per year are vaporized by the sun.

Does anyone have a guesstimate? Thanks in advance.
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post Jan 22 2010, 05:03 PM
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Try here:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/klist.htm
1714 and counting....


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post Mar 12 2010, 09:28 AM
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A new, very bright one in action. It seems there were too some fainter just in front.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/

Try (a.t.m.) the latest 40 C3 images: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater


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post Mar 12 2010, 03:05 PM
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Comet and a CME too.

Is it possible to save the "movie" ?
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post Mar 12 2010, 05:04 PM
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Now appearing in the C2 coronagraph.
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