‎  Wikipedia has excellent coverage of Comet Lovejoy . Their text is included below:   C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) COVERAGE: C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) is a periodic comet , classified as a Kreutz Sungrazer . It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . The comet's perihelion took it