One Comet Discovered by SOHO (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

One Comet Discovered by SOHO

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One comet discovered by SOHO is Comet 96P Machholz. It orbits the sun approximately every six years and SOHO has seen it three times.

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NASA/ESA/SOHO

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