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SOHO Nears 3,000 Comet Discoveries
A fine sungrazer nears its doom as seen via SOHOs LASCO C2 camera. Image credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO/NRLSungrazers
It’s a discovery that could come any day now.
The Solar Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft known as SOHO is set to cross the 3,000 comet discovery threshold this month. Launched atop an Atlas II rocket on December 2nd, 1995, SOHO is a joint NASA/ESA mission, and has observed the Sun now for almost 20 years from the sunward L1 lagrange point. That fact is amazing enough, as SOHO has already followed the goings on of our tempestuous host star for nearly two full solar cycles.(…)
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Post tags: 3000 comets, Kreutz Family Comets, SOHO 3000, SOHO 3000 comets, sungrazer discovery, sungrazers
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