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C/2011 N3 (SOHO)

Kreutz sungrazer comet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ138298361 ↗
Source-derived summary

C/2011 N3 (SOHO), also known as SOHO-2107, was a Kreutz sungrazer comet that disintegrated during perihelion on 6 July 2011. In January 2012, it was revealed that the comet was also observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, providing rare insights to its actual chemical composition, mass, and nucleus size.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, SOHO, Kreutz and sungrazer is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138298361. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “C/2011 N3 (SOHO)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.