Hi All, Most of you probably haven't heard about this yet, so I thought I'd give you a heads up that the brightest sungrazing comet since Comet Lovejoy last year will soon be entering the SOHO LASCO C3 field of view. It was discovered in SWAN images last week by Vladimir Bezugly, and confirmed by me over the weekend in imagery both from SWAN and STEREO-B.
Most are assuming that this is probably a Kreutz family comet, but due to the coarseness of the SWAN data (both spatially and temporally), non-Kreutz orbital solutions are still possible. It will be interesting to see if the comet is bright enough to potentially survive perihelion passage as Comet Lovejoy did. Of course, that will depend a lot on the orbit; for instance, right now I get some orbital solutions that actually intersect the sun late on March 14th. --Rob ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
