WildWill Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) Howdy all y’all! Has anyone else noticed what appears to be a shooting star head for the sun and burn up?? https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/lasco-coronagraph It’s visible beginning at 2022/11/6 @ approx 10:00 UT. Just before, you can see mercury or Venus enter the view from the right, just after that, you can see a tiny streak of a “shooting star” enter the view from the bottom and move very quickly to about 1/3 to 1/4 as far from the sun as when it entered the view! We see it enters the picture at the edge of LASCO C2 and about two thirds out on LASCO C3. On LASCO C3, it’s actually visible at the beginning of the current loop - 2022-11-05 17:00 UT. Talk about space trucking’! Anybody got any more info on this “thing”. Could have been a comet or an asteroid. It sure is cooking along pretty quickly! Or was, I should say. You can see it burn up at the end! Check it out! I thought it was very cool! And, the sun just came out here, so I’m off to the back yard.., Cheers & Enjoy! WnA Edited November 6, 2022 by WildWill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Jesterface23 Posted November 6, 2022 Solution Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) That is a comet, becoming brighter as they come closer to the Sun and have a tail. They don't go directly into the Sun, but it is probably close enough to burn up and no longer exist in a few hours. The other small bright spot planet is Mercury. Edited November 6, 2022 by Jesterface23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarflaretracker200 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Rip that comet is dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Spacex Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 That comet did sustain its brightness a little longer than the average sungrazer. It's a well-done solar smore by now. And also there's Libra's leading star Zubenelgenubi, a binary star that can be seen in LASCO c2 to the upper left of the Sun right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bry Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 The diving comet might have made the sun liven up and produce a M5 flare finally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildWill Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 8 hours ago, Jesterface23 said: That is a comet, becoming brighter as they come closer to the Sun and have a tail. They don't go directly into the Sun, but it is probably close enough to burn up and no longer exist in a few hours. The other small bright spot planet is Mercury. The whole “meteor” bit was meant to be amusing… pretty picture. To me, it’s trajectory would suggest an Orr Cloud Comet - I wonder how long ago it began this journey that ended today. Looks like a pair of small asteroids crashed into the east limb at about the same time as the comet came apart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Spacex Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 (edited) This comet appears to match an inbound trajectory Kreutz group comet. https://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/C2_C3_Comet_Tracks#TrackImages "Note that SOHO's Kreutz-group discoveries do not survive perihelion -- this means that we never see them on the "outbound" portion of their orbit. " Edited November 7, 2022 by Drax Spacex no outbound 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solarflaretracker200 Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, WildWill said: The whole “meteor” bit was meant to be amusing… pretty picture. To me, it’s trajectory would suggest an Orr Cloud Comet - I wonder how long ago it began this journey that ended today. Hi WildWill! It's actually a Kreutz group comet or also known as Kreutz sungrazer! You may have already saw people say that already, but I just wanted to tell you. If you want more info on it, read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutz_sungrazer It's very interesting actually! Edited November 7, 2022 by Solarflaretracker200 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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