This milestone was reached at the end of the day December 26, 2010 when the amateur astronomer Michal Kusiak Poland, which recently found its 100th comet (in astronomy, a comet is a small bright star in the solar system whose orbit has usually in the form of a ...) SOHO (SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft is placed ...), announced problable observation (Observation is action Careful monitoring of the phenomena, without willingness to change, to help ...) of a small comet belonging to the Kreutz group in LASCO C2 images from SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory). This comet in heels one that had been discovered earlier in the day, the couple becoming the 2000th discoveries for 1999 and the satellite
SOHO-2000 is a member of the Comets "Kreutz" - a (very) large population of comets that all share the same orbital path in joint space. Kreutz comets come from a single parent comet that is supposed to have broken close to the Sun centuries ago, or perhaps millennia.
Approximately 85% of SOHO comets discovered are tiny fragments of the original object
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