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999th and 1000th comets identified in SOHO images
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- Title 999th and 1000th comets identified in SOHO images
- Released 11/08/2005 5:30 pm
- Copyright ESA/NASA
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On 5 August 2005, the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft saw its 1000th comet. The 1000th comet was a Kreutz-group comet spotted in images from the C3 coronagraph on SOHO's LASCO instrument by Toni Scarmato, from Calabria, Italy.