A paper was published in Science magazine today about watching the evaporation of C/2011 N3 (SOHO) seen by SDO/AIA to evaporate near the Sun in July (here is a time-lapse image of the comet moving across the disk of the Sun.) The article is at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/324. There is also a comment (called a perspective) written by another scientist that describes the research paper.
Here are some links to media accounts describing these comets:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-death.html
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/20jan_cometcorpse/
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/comet-death-may-hint-at-birth-of-earth/
http://www.space.com/14288-sungrazing-comet-death-dive-sun-observed.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120119-comet-sun-corona-breakup-nasa-solar-space-science/
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scientists-make-first-ever-observations-of-comets-demise-deep-inside-solar-atmosphere-2012-01-19
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sun-diving-comet-sdo
http://www.kxly.com/nationalnews/30252948/detail.html
Many thanks to the FOT for finishing the new EVE Cruciform maneuver on Wednesday. The new algorithm gives the EVE science team better data is half the time.
