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- adjective astronomy Whose
path ororbit passes very close to thesun
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With an orbit that takes it within about 150,000 km of the Sun at about midnight GMT on 15-16 December, Comet Lovejoy belongs to the Kreutz sungrazing family of comets that have produced some of the greatest comets of all time.
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This is Murakami's second comet discovery but Ikeya has found six others over a span of almost five decades – his most famous one being the sungrazing Comet Ikeya-Seki, the Great Comet of 1965, and surely one of the brightest comets of the last millennium.
Starwatch: Comets Hartley 2 and Ikeya-Murakami Alan Pickup 2010
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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the fate of a sungrazing comet.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009
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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the fate of a sungrazing comet.
Archive 2009-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2009
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Some were sungrazing, some were other types but very close to the sun.
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Probably the most spectacular comets in history were of the same sungrazing group.
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The last really bright sungrazing comet was in 1965, an incident which my father saw and witnessed.
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The sungrazing comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), set to skim the surface of the sun late Thursday (Dec. 15), was discovered two weeks ago by amateur observer Terry Lovejoy.
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It was probably around the initial announcement, which was on the 2nd of December, that there were enough observations made of it to prove it was a sungrazing comet.
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Comet 96P/Machholz, and the Kreutz family of sungrazing comets.
Signs of the Times 2009
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