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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ comet hunter SOHO

Posted by: PhilCo126 Sep 29 2007, 08:12 PM

The European SOHO-spacecraft (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) has discovered over 1350 comets but using the LASCO coronagraph it has officially found a periodic comet: P/2007 R5 (SOHO).

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMXVK6H07F_Belgium_du_1.html

Posted by: peter59 Mar 13 2010, 06:05 AM

Comet makes death plunge toward Sun.

On March 12th, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched as a comet plunged into the sun and disappeared.
Perfect animated gif.
http://spaceweather.com/images2010/12mar10/comet_c2_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=0m2v340kh5731l41qhgb2hl2l3