  In the context of a recently proposed contact-binary model of the Kreutz
system, all its members are products of the process of cascading fragmentation
of the two lobes of the parent, Aristotle's comet of 372 BC. This process
presumably began with the lobes' separation from each other near aphelion.
However, not every object in a Kreutz-like orbit is a Kreutz sungrazer. Any
surviving sungrazer that had split off from the progenitor before the lobes
separated, as well as its surviving fragments born in any subsequent tidal or
nontidal event, are by definition not members of the Kreutz system. Yet, as
parts of the same progenitor, they belong -- as do all Kreutz sungrazers -- to
a broader assemblage of related objects, which I refer to as a super-Kreutz
system. After estimating the ratio of the number of super-Kreutz members to
nonmembers among potential historical sungrazers, I generate representative
extended pedigree charts for both the Kreutz system and super-Kreutz system.
While the fragmentation paths and relationships among the individual sungrazers
or potential sungrazers in the two charts are (with at most a few exceptions)
arbitrary, the purpose of the exercise is to suggest that the Kreutz system
proper could in effect represent an ultimate deagglomeration stage of the
super-Kreutz system.
