COMET DEATH OBSERVED FOR FIRST TIME (JULY 5-6, 2011)
As SOHO observed with its two coronagraphs for about a day (July 5-6, 2011), an icy comet flew in from behind the Sun and met its end. The Solar Dynamics Observatory AIA imager actually spotted the comet as it disintegrated over about a ten hour period, something never observed before. The angle of the comet’s orbit brought it across the front half of the Sun where it seemed to brighten when it stuck hotter masses of particles above the Sun;s surface. The comet was probably a member of the Kreutz sun-grazer family.
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