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Kreutz Sungrazers

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kreutz Sungrazers (i/EE krE"e;Ets/) are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.

They are believed to be fragments of one large comet that broke up several centuries ago and are named for German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first demonstrated that they were related.

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5510112506 / 9785510112504
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1 pages