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Sun grazing Comets
April 16 , 2024
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- A tiny "sungrazer" comet, later named SOHO-5008, was discovered, photo graphed, and then destroyed within a span of 24 hours.
- Sungrazers are comets that come within about 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) of the sun, significantly closer than Mercury.
- They are mostly belonging to the Kreutz orbit group, originating from a giant comet that fragmented around 2,000 years ago.
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