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sun-grazing comet
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sun-grazing comet [′sən ¦grāz·iŋ ′käm·ət]
(astronomy)
A comet whose orbit causes it to either collide with the sun or completely disintegrate in the outer solar atmosphere.
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Other articles survey the current state of research in topics that include astrobiology, sungrazing comets, digital image reconstruction, new spectral types L and T, high-velocity white dwarfs and galactic structure, standard photometric systems, mega-masers and galaxies, and galactic winds.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics; v.43, 2005 by SciTech Book News
Another key goal would be modernizing the satellite's coronagraph, which photographs the sun's outer fringes and recently discovered at least two sungrazing comets (SN: 7/16/88, p.
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