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astro-ph.EP2015★ 14 cited
Gone in a Blaze of Glory: the Demise of Comet C/2015 D1 (SOHO)
Man-To Hui, Quan-Zhi Ye, Matthew Knight +2
We present studies of C/2015 D1 (SOHO), the first sunskirting comet ever seen from ground stations over the past half century. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) witness…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 51 cited
Dynamic Sublimation Pressure and the Catastrophic Breakup of Comet ISON
Jordan K. Steckloff, Brandon C. Johnson, Timothy Bowling +4
Previously proposed mechanisms have difficulty explaining the disruption of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it approached the Sun. We describe a novel cometary disruption mechanism where…