4,973 Comet Lovejoy Space Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) is a periodic comet , classified as a Kreutz Sungrazer . It was discovered on 27 November 2011, by amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . [2] The comet's perihelion took