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Featured article: July 6, 2005 The Kreutz Sungrazers are a family of comets, characterized by orbits which take them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion. They are all believed to originate from the fragmentation of one very large comet several centuries ago, and are named for the astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first demonstrated that they were related. Several members of the Kreutz family have become Great Comets, occasionally visible near the Sun in the daytime sky. The most recent of these was Comet Ikeya-Seki in 1965, which may have been one of the brightest comets in the last millennium. Many hundreds of smaller members of the family have been discovered since the launch of the SOHO satellite in 1995. Some are just a few metres across; none has survived its perihelion passage. Amateur astronomers have been very successful at discovering Kreutz comets in the data available in real time via the Internet. Recently featured: Order of Canada – Spamming – Panavision Archive – By email – More featured articles...

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Featured picture: June 27, 2006 Prosobranchia are gastropods with gills in front of the heart. The prosobranchs are almost all marine snails, among them conches, cowries, limpets, murexes, periwinkles, volutes, and whelks. They all have an operculum, a horny plate situated at the foot, by which the snail can close the aperture, when the body is retracted into the shell. Most have spirally coiled shells. Their nervous system has twisted into a figure-8 shape. The eyes are situated on tentacles. Illustration credit: Ernst Haeckel Archive - More featured pictures...

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Goldfrapp discography Alison Goldfrapp performing in June 2006 Releases ↙Studio albums 4 ↙Compilation albums 1 ↙EPs 4 ↙Singles 18 ↙Video albums 1 ↙Music videos 17 ↙Miscellaneous 11 ↙Remixes 4 This is the discography of Goldfrapp, a British electronic music duo. Goldfrapp have released four studio albums, one remix album, four Extended plays, eighteen singles, seventeen music videos and one DVD on London-based record label Mute Records. Studio albums Year Title Chart peak positions Sales and certifications UK [1] AUS [2] BEL [3] FR [4] GER [5] SWI [6] US [7] 2000 Felt Mountain Released on 19 September 2000 Labels: Mute (CDStumm #188) Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl 57 44 — 95 36 36 — US sales: 52,000[8] BPI certification: Gold[9] 2003 Black Cherry Released on 28 April 2003 Labels: Mute (CDStumm #196) Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl 19 36 44 — 25 98 — US sales: 52,000[8] BPI certification: Platinum[10] 2005 Supernature Released on 28 April 2005 Labels: Mute (CDStumm #250) Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl 2 23 16 43 26 29 138 US sales: 49,000[8] BPI certification: Platinum[11] 2008 Seventh Tree Released on February 28, 2008 Labels: Mute (CDStumm #280) Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl 2 11 10 37 21 11 48 US sales: 15,000[12] BPI certification: Gold[13] "—" denotes releases that did not chart. See full list...

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8. ^ ^{a b c} Caulfield, Keith. "Ask Billboard". Billboard. 3 August 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
9. ^ "British sales certificate for Felt Mountain". British Phonographic Industry. 12 October 2001. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
10. ^ "British sales certificate for Black Cherry". British Phonographic Industry. 26 August 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
11. ^ "British sales certificate for Supernature". British Phonographic Industry. 13 January 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
12. ^ Hasty, Kathy. "Janet Dethrones Jack To Top Billboard 200". Billboard. 5 March 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2008.
13. ^ "British sales certificate for Seventh Tree". British Phonographic Industry. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2008.

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