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SOHO comets: 20 years and 3000 objects later
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0257 Bibcode: 2017RSPTA.37560257B

Knight, Matthew M.; Battams, Karl

We present a summary of the more than 3000 sungrazing and near-Sun comets discovered in coronagraph images returned by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), since its launch in December 1995. We address each of the four main populations of objects observed by SOHO: Kreutz (sungrazing) group, Meyer group, Marsden and Kracht (96P-family) gr…

2017 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A
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