A Delhi boy has discovered a new comet using
data from NASA and European Space Agency;s Spacecraft-based
observatory SOHO that studies the sun.
Discovered by Praful sharma, is a class 12th
student of Ahlcon public school, the new comet SOHO-2333 is a
fragment believed to have separated from a relatively larger comet Machholz
when it last came close to the sun in 2007.
Sharma, who has been associated with Delhi-based
NGO science. Popularization Association of Communicators and educators (SPACE),
is a part of world wide team of comet hunters. Who scour through images of
the sun transmitted back to earth by Solar and Heliosphere Observatory (SOHO).
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