SOHO spacecraft sees two comets plunge into sun

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Jun 1998

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XMM Press Release INFO 19-1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The observations of the comets and the large erupting prominence were made by the LASCO coronagraph on ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. Science instruments on SOHO have discovered more than 50 comets, including many so-called sun grazers, but none in such close succession. The eruption of solar gas was directed away from Earth and does not pose a hazard to our planet or orbiting astronauts.
Selected images and an image sequence of the new observations can be found on the World Wide Web at the SOHO Website: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/comets/SOHO_sungrazers.html The SOHO mission is a joint undertaking of ESA and NASA.
Development of the LASCO instrument was coordinated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Donald Michels of the LASCO science team led the team that observed this rare phenomenon.
For further information, please contact : ESA Public Relations Division Tel: +33(0)1.53.69.71.55 Fax: +33(0)1.53.69.76.90

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