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Bookmark or Share- Watch the Comet ATLAS Fly Into the Sun and Burn UpC/2024 S1, like every other comet, was comprised primarily of frozen gases, rocks, and dust. C/2024 S1 was a Kreutz sungrazer, a family of sungrazing comets characterized by orbital paths that ...
- Sungrazing Comet Turns to Cosmic Dust in Dramatic Halloween ...NASA. A newly discovered comet met its demise during a dangerously close encounter with the Sun, breaking apart into chunks and destroying any hope of being spotted for Halloween. NASA and the ...
- Has October’s 2nd comet – the sungrazer Comet S1 - EarthSkyBottom line: The new sungrazer comet gave us high hopes of a bright comet at the end of October. But it appears it has disintegrated during its close approach to the sun. Via Spaceweather
- The Sungrazer Project - NASA ScienceFact: Over half of all known comets were first discovered by Sungrazer Project contributors! These comet discoveries have shaped our modern understanding of comet orbits, composition, dust properties, evolution, and fragmentation. Sungrazer comets also help scientists learn about the Sun.
- Sungrazing comet - WikipediaA 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. Although small sungrazers can completely evaporate during such a close approach to the Sun, larger sungrazers can survive many perihelion passages.
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