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History’s greatest comet hunter discovers 1000th comet
 
19 August 2005

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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.

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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.

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