19 March 2024 - Mission Day: 10336 - DOY: 079
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Follow that Comet! (April 17, 2002)


  • Higher resolution version of the Comet Series image (TIF,1.8M)
  • To see movies of the comet, visit the SOHO Hotshots.
  • The comet SOHO-422 was first reported on Friday, April 12, by XingMing Zhou of China, who discovered the comet while watching SOHO real-time images on the internet. The comet is a new comet, not belonging to any known group of comets. It will be visible in SOHO's LASCO C3 images until Saturday, April 20 when it leaves our field of view as shown in the drawing of its estimated path.

    The comet was first visible late in the day on Thursday, April 11. It entered our instrument's view at the bottom edge, almost directly under the Sun. It moved upwards to the left, and is moving move back towards the right. The closest it will come to the Sun is about 13 solar radii. Comets are balls of frozen ice and dust with long tails trailing debris behind them.

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