SUNDIVING COMET: January 4th, 2013.

A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion -- sometimes within a few thousand kilometres of the Sun’s surface. While small sungrazers can be completely evaporated during such a close approach to the Sun, larger sungrazers can survive many perihelion passages. However, the strong evaporation and tidal forces they experience often lead to their fragmentation. The most famous sungrazers are the Kreutz Sungrazers, which all originate from one giant comet that broke up int