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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Sun _ Question about sungrazing comets

Posted by: Canopus 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.

Posted by: Toma B Jan 22 2010, 05:03 PM

Try here:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/klist.htm
1714 and counting....

Posted by: Tman Mar 12 2010, 09:28 AM

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

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 12 2010, 03:05 PM

Comet and a CME too.

Is it possible to save the "movie" ?

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 12 2010, 05:04 PM

Now appearing in the C2 coronagraph.