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SOHO Comet 500 discovered

A small object spotted by Rainer Kracht of Elmshorn in Germany has been officially confirmed as Comet 2002 P3 (SOHO). It is the 500th comet discovered with SOHO.

It made its closest approach to the Sun at 16:05 Universal Time on Monday, 12 August. Diane McElhiney won a contest run by the SOHO science team for guessing that date and time for SOHO-500. Her prediction was too early by only 103 minutes.

For more information, images and movies see

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/

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