Hi Steve, There is some evidence supporting the theory of sungrazing comets occasionally triggering CMEs. There have been at least a dozen of these "coincidences" in the past decade that I've been comet hunting, which at first glance may not seem like a lot (given that there have been over 2000 sungrazers since SOHO launched). But most of these comets are extremely faint; only the largest Kreutz comets seem to be associated with these CME coincidences.
That said, there have been some very large Kreutz comets that did NOT have CMEs associated with them, and of course most CMEs occur when no sungrazers have impacted recently. My idea is that these sungrazing comets don't ~cause~ CMEs, but rather that larger comets can act as *seeds* for triggering the timing of a CME that was already imminent. An analogy might be the triggering of terrestrial lightning strikes by launching small rockets trailing conductive wire during thunderstorms. Lightning is going to happen, whether the rockets are launched or not -- but the location and timing of the lightning is controllable. --Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Witt Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:58 PM To: [email protected]; Count Deiro Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] THE SUN EATS A COMET? Count and List, Just to be clear the comet and the CME have nothing to do with each other, just a cool coincidence. Best, Steve Steve Witt IMCA #9020 http://imca.cc/ --- On Tue, 5/17/11, Count Deiro <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Count Deiro <[email protected]> > Subject: [meteorite-list] THE SUN EATS A COMET? > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 9:29 PM > > Hello Listees, > > This posted on LiveLeak a an hour or so ago. It purports to show a > comet captured by the Sun. > > http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c1_1305678323 > > Regards, > > Count Deiro > IMCA 3536 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
