SOHO Comets/Asteroids/Planets

[EarthlingX]

At spaceweather it is assumed it's Kreutz :

http://www.spaceweather.com : SUNDIVING COMET

The solar system has one less comet today after one of the dirty snowballs swung past the sun--a little too close--and did not survive. Click on the image to view a movie of the death plunge:



Japanese comet hunter Masanori Uchina first noticed the sundiver in coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Nov. 13th. At the time it was a dim and distant speck, but it rapidly brightened on Nov. 14th as it approached the hot sun. Now it is just a dissipating haze of vapor and comet dust.

The comet was likely a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Several of these fragments are thought to pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most are too small to see but occasionally a bigger fragment like this one attracts attention.

 

[EarthlingX]

Here's another one from Sungrazing Comets :

 

[MeteorWayne]

To see in the SOHO Movie Theater

Select C3 and enter 2010-11-17 as the start date and 2010-11-18 as the end date, then click search.

I pick it up about 1200 UTC on the 17th.

Later today, it will probably be visible in the C2 image; I'll update this post then.

Thanx EX!

Wayne

 

[EarthlingX]

Just doing my little bit, but welcome anyway

Looks pretty roasted :

Sungrazing Comets :

It entered LASCO C2 field of view on 2010-11-18 at 20:12, last image 2010-11-19 at 01:24.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Not exactly a Comet Asteroid or Planet, but still rather interesting....

If you go to the SOHO Movie Theater, select C3 and enter a start date of 2010-11-26, then click on search...

On the left you will see a curve of fairly bright stars from the upper left to the lower left. At the lower left, you will see a very bright star (with a bit of left-right bleedover). The constellation is Scorpio, and the bright star is 1st magnitude Antares. To the right and a bit lower, and in line with the rest of the curve of stars I mentioned, you will see a faint fuzzy object. That is globular cluster M4.

M4

MW