[meteorite-list] Sun Eats Another Comet

From: Warren Sansoucie <warren3174_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:14:55 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY132-W798398CF6D3FD0B811DC9D3140_at_phx.gbl>

Hello list,
 
If you have an iphone you can get the 3D SUN app and it will alert you to everything being discussed. I had this video and information last night when the app let me know it was available.
 
Too bad there isn't any meteorite apps available yet.
 
Warren Sansoucie
 

> From: mojave_meteorites at cox.net
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:01:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sun Eats Another Comet
>
> Resending from home e-mail:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>> Sun Eats Another Comet
>> http://spaceweather.com/images2010/09apr10/comet_c2_big2.gif
>
>> Question: Is this something new? Or has this been happening since
>> the beginning of our solar system and we're just now "tuning in"
>> to the show?
>
> Perhaps the most accurate answer to your question is "neither". ;-)
> Kreutz comets are not "new" (e.g. in the sense of having just burst
> on the scene in the last few years). But they haven't been around
> for millennia either. The Kreutz family of sungrazers have been
> putting on their show for almost a thousand years, and include the
> Great Comets of 1843 and 1882, as well as Comet Ikeya-Seki in 1965.
> They all trace their lineage to a single progenitor comet, which
> may have been the Great Comet of 1106. You can read more about the
> family here:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_Sungrazers>
>
> I discovered my first Kreutz comet in 1992 -- SOHO comet #445.
> My most recent Kreutz comet was SOHO #1798 (my 84th Kreutz), which
> I found in January of this year. So as you can see, SOHO has
> discovered over 1300 comets in the last 8 years, most of them
> members of the Kreutz family).
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
> P.S. Most Kreutz comets do not actually "hit" the sun. Their
> perihelion distances are typically around 0.005 a.u. (748,000 km),
> which is about 7% more than the sun's radius.
>
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Received on Sat 10 Apr 2010 03:14:55 PM PDT