The space telescope SOHO, was identified as a new comet. She became chetyrehlistnyj object discovered with this telescope NASA.
New comet was discovered on June 15 and received the name SOHO-4000. She joined the solar family of comets Kreutz. This group of comets are different in that they are very close pass near the Sun during perihelion. SOHO-4000 has a very small size – its diameter is about 4.5 to 9 meters. The brightness of the object was so modest that only a space telescope SOHO had the strength to commit such an extremely small object.
Remarkably, the comet discovered Amateur astronomer Trygve of Prestegard, while studying data collected by the telescope earlier.
According to one of the researchers involved in the work with the telescope Carl Battams, SOHO not only rewrote the history books from the point of view of solar physics, but he also rewrote the book from the point of view of comets.
Since the launch of the space telescope SOHO it’s been 25 years and now he is at a distance of 1.6 million kilometers from the Sun. This time it was discovered hundreds of comets of the Kreutz family. The many celestial bodies found just Amateur astronomers, as the images from the telescope are available on the Internet, and everyone can seek to identify new objects.
