Sungrazing comet
This extreme brightening will allow for possible naked eye observations from Earth depending on how volatile the gases are and if the comet is large enough to survive perihelion.
C/1880 C1 and C/1843 D1 had very similar appearances and also resembled the Great Comet of 1106, therefore Daniel Kirkwood proposed that C/1880 C1 and C/1843 D1 were separate fragments of the same object.
Some astronomers theorized that the comet might pass through a resisting medium near the Sun and that would shorten its period.
After perihelion this object was also seen to split into several fragments and therefore Kirkwood's theory of these comets coming from a parent body seemed like a good explanation.
Other emission lines included K, Ca, Ca+, Cr, Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, and V.[9][10][11][12][13] Comet Ikeya-Seki also led to separating the Kreutz sungrazers into two subgroups by Brian Marsden in 1967.
The 20th century greatly impacted sungrazing comet research with the launch of coronagraphic telescopes including Solwind, SMM, and SOHO.
[4] In 1987 and 1988 it was first observed by SMM that there could be pairs of sungrazing comets that can appear within very short time periods ranging from a half of a day up to about two weeks.
Calculations were made to determine that the pairs were part of the same parent body but broke apart at tens of AU from the Sun.
Another small peak in brightness has been found at about 7 solar radii from the sun and it is possibly due to a fragmentation of the comet nucleus.
Each of these four was briefly bright enough to be visible in the daytime sky, next to the Sun, 1882's comet outshining even the full moon.
[18] Apart from Comet Lovejoy, none of the sungrazers seen by SOHO has survived its perihelion passage; some may have plunged into the Sun itself, but most are likely to have simply evaporated away completely.
These comets have also been linked to several meteor streams, including the Daytime Arietids, the delta Aquariids, and the Quadrantids.
The Great Comet of 1680 was a sungrazer and while used by Newton to verify Kepler's equations on orbital motion, it was not a member of any larger groups.
