Great Southern Comet of 1887
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great-southern-comet-of-1887-313-10842550
title:
Great Southern Comet of 1887
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The Great Southern Comet of 1887, or C/1887 B1 using its International Astronomical Union (IAU) designation, was a bright comet seen from the Southern Hemisphere during January 1887. Later calculations indicated it to be part of the Kreutz Sungrazing group. It came to perihelion on 11 January 1877 at a distance of 0.00483 AU (723 thousand km) with a velocity of 606.1 km/s. Since the Sun has a radius of 696000 km, the comet passed about 27000 km from the surface of the Sun. A curious feature of t
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Kreutz comet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southern_Comet_of_1887
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2023-12-26T14:43:57Z
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