SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011).
See previous video from NASA SOHO showing the comet's path: http://youtu.be/igeBrSGk5FA
Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields.
Credit: NASA SDO
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doctorofart 8 months ago
Perhaps the presumably negatively charged comet came into contact with the E field of the prominence, and sufficiently detuned the system enough to cause collapse of the source magnetic dipole, triggering the CME. This would be analogous to the detuning of a resonant LC circuit by introducing capacitive coupling to a human hand, for example.
piratetwinbeard 9 months ago 2