Comets and asteroids on sungrazing orbits

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Theoretical dynamics:
Some papers on gravitational mechanisms that can gradually but systematically change comet/asteroid orbits to be sungrazing:

Chambers et al. (1992)
Farinella et al. (1994)
Valsecchi et al. (1995)

Observations:

Picture of sungrazing comet (jpg file, 740k) taken by SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (caption; copyright note). Picture by SOHO/LASCO consortium.

Links:

Kronk sungrazer page
SOHO sungrazer page
BAA Comet Section: Kreutz comets

The Kreutz Group and other groups of sungrazing comets are reviewed by Marsden (2005).

2008 December 19th