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RE: SOHO

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Anniversary of SOHO satellite launch. (1995)

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun, and has discovered 1900 comets.
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RE: SOHO

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As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered its 2000th comet.
Drawing on help from citizen scientists around the world, SOHO has become the single greatest comet finder of all time. This is all the more impressive since SOHO was not specifically designed to find comets, but to monitor the sun.
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Today (2 Dec 2010) marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of SOHO - the world's largest and most successful solar space mission.
Over 3,700 papers using SOHO data have been published in refereed journals since the launch, representing the work of over 3,000 individual scientists. Not only has virtually every living solar physicist had access to SOHO data, many amateur astronomers have also used the publicly released images. Any day now we expect news of its 2000th comet discovery!
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Anniversary of SOHO satellite launch. (1995)

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun, and has discovered 1900 comets.
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The SOHO satellite has discovered it's 1900th comet.

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