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Comet Takes 'Swan' Dive Into Sun

Just three months after one comet made a seemingly death-defying plunge through the sun, another icy wanderer is set to try its own luck in a solar rendezvous.

The newly discovered comet Swan is on a collision course with our star, and it should plummet through the solar atmosphere sometime late today (March 14), researchers say. Swan's dive follows shortly after that of comet Lovejoy, which shocked astronomers by emerging from behind the sun on Dec. 15, 2011, stripped of its tail but otherwise intact.

The odds are against such a happy ending for comet Swan, however.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/


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