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UKnown Bright Comet Skirts The Sun - Moving Surprisingly Quickly (+Video)

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February 19, 2015

An unusual comet is skirting past the sun today. “It’s a ‘non-group comet,’ meaning that it does not appear to be related to any other comet or comet family that we have on record,” explains Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab. “Unofficially I’ve labelled it SOHO-2875, as it’s the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory’s 2,875th comet discovery.

Most comets that SOHO sees belong to the Kreutz family. Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet many centuries ago. They get their name from 19th century German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who studied them in detail. Today’s comet, however, is not a member of the family.

“Non-group comets like this appear a few times a year, so in that sense it’s not too unusual,” continues Battams. “But this one is relatively bright and is moving surprisingly quickly.”

http://spaceweather.com/

These images were taken by the http://helioviewer.org/

original clip 1  http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=0gZd5
 

original clip 2  http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=3gZd5
 

 

Image credit: NASA



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