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Comet's Death Dive Into Sun Seen in Detail for 1st Time
http://www.space.com/14288-sungrazing-comet-death-dive-sun-observed.html
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor
Date: 19 January 2012
Now a single comet is an insignificant amount of mass compared to the sun, but I wonder how many comets the sun has collected over the eons, and how much of the carbon, oxygen in the sun has been contributed by comets.
http://www.space.com/14288-sungrazing-comet-death-dive-sun-observed.html
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor
Date: 19 January 2012
I was surprised to learn that sun-diving comets are common. I guess in the past, sun-diving comets simply disappeared, i.e., we knew they approached the sun, but did not reappear.A comet has been spotted disintegrating in the atmosphere of the sun for the first time.
Such sun-diving comets are common but none have been seen surviving entry into the sun's atmosphere until now. . . .
Now a single comet is an insignificant amount of mass compared to the sun, but I wonder how many comets the sun has collected over the eons, and how much of the carbon, oxygen in the sun has been contributed by comets.