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SOHO Comet Discoverers' Totals
Last updated: Feb 02, 2012
Current totals: 2231
This table lists of total number of SOHO comets, including SWAN discoveries. Note that only the comets, confirmed by MPC and reported on MPECs or IAUCs, those internally confirmed by SOHO personnel and granted a "SOHO number" when still awaiting permanent designation as well. Refer to Sungrazer Web site for reports and astrometry. Please notify me about the errors and your disagreements.
| Rank | Name-lists | Total number (Total number of first reports) | Notes |
| 1 | Rainer Kracht (Germany) | 255(253) | Discoverer of Kracht & Kracht2 comet groups, + 4 SOLWIND and 3 STEREO comets up to now |
| 2 | Bo Zhou (China) | 246(242) | |
| 3 | Hua Su (China) | 208(203) | |
| 4 | Michal Kusiak (Poland) | 150(145) | + 1 STEREO comet up to now |
| 5 | Michael Oates (UK) | 144(139) | Pioneered the search of SOHO's archives files |
| 6 | Tony Hoffman (US) | 117(112) | |
| 7 | Rob Matson (US) | 106(104) | includes 4 SWAN co-discoveries (C/2005 T4, C/2006 M4, C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN), C/2011 Q4) and 3 STEREO comets up to now |
| 8 | Masanori Uchina (Japan) | 104(99) | |
| 9 | Xavier Leprette (France) | 100(95) | |
| 10 | Jiangao Ruan (China) | 81(80) | + 5 STEREO comet up to now |
| 11 | Zhijian Xu (China) | 77(71) | + 1 STEREO comet up to now |
| 12 | XingMing Zhou (China) | 64(63) | includes SWAN co-discovery (C/2004 H6) |
| 13 | Michael Boschat (Canada) | 60(53) | |
| 14 | John Sachs (US) | 54(47) | includes LASCO co-discovery of C/2004 V13 (SWAN) |
| 15 | Doug Biesecker (US) | 53(47) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 16 | Sebastian Hönig (Germany) | 43(42) | +Visual discovery in night sky (C/2002 O4) |
| 17 | Sergei Schmalz (Germany) | 41(36) | |
| 18 | Maik Meyer (Germany) | 40(37) | Discoverer of Meyer comet group |
| 19 | Toni Scarmato (Italy) | 25(24) | Discoverer of SOHO-1000 |
| 20 | Arkadiusz Kubczak (Poland) | 24(24) | includes the 1000th SOHO Kreutz comet (SOHO-1185) |
| 21 | Kazimieras Cernis (Lithuania) | 22(19) | includes SWAN co-discovery (C/2004 H6); + 3 visual discoveries in night sky (C/1980 O1, C/1983 O1, C/1990 E1) |
| 22 | David Evans (UK) | 20(20) | |
| 23 | Karl Battams (US/UK) | 19(19) | SOHO/LASCO team member; + 2 STEREO comets up to now |
| 24 | Szymon Liwo (Poland) | 19(18) | |
| 25 | Shane Stezelberger (US) | 14(14) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 26 | Steve Farmer, Jr. (US) | 13(13) | |
| 27 | Shihong Yuan (China) | 12(12) | |
| 28 | Kevin Schenk (US) | 11(11) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 29 | James Danaher (US) | 11(10) | |
| 30 | Terry Lovejoy (Australia) | 11(9) | First amateur to discover a comet online; + 3 comet discovery in night sky with a DSLR (C/2007 E2, C/2007 K5, C/2011 W3) |
| 31 | Darren Lewis (UK) | 10(10) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 32 | Man-To Hui (China) | 10(10) | |
| 33 | Tao Chen (China) | 10(7) | + 1 comet discovery in night sky with a DSLR (C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao)) |
| 34 | Alexander Godunov (Russia) | 9(9) | |
| 35 | Bernard McCarty (UK) | 9(5) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 36 | Guoyou Sun (China) | 8(8) | |
| 37 | Heiner Otterstedt (Germany) | 7(7) | Discoverer of many Non-group SOHO comets |
| 38 | Sergey Shurpakov (Belarus) | 7(7) | |
| 39 | Quanzhi Ye (China) | 7(6) | |
| 40 | DongHua Chen (China) | 6(6) | |
| 41 | Michele Mazzucato (Italy) | 6(6) | |
| 42 | Eryk Banach (Poland) | 6(6) | |
| 43 | Shishir Deshmukh (India) | 6(6) | |
| 44 | Vladimir Bezugly (Ukraine) | 6(4) | includes 2 SWAN co-discovery (C/2005 P3, C/2011 Q4) |
| 45 | Jonathan Shanklin (UK) | 6(3) | |
| 46 | Pavel Shkreby (Russia) | 6(3) | |
| 47 | Angelos Vourlidas (US) | 5(5) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 48 | Derek Hammer (US) | 5(5) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 49 | Michael Mattiazzo (Australia) | 5(1) | 5 SWAN discoveries (C/2004 H6, C/2004 V13, C/2005 P3, C/2005 T4, C/2006 M4) |
| 50 | Xing Gao (China) | 4(4) | + 2 comet discovery in night sky with a DSLR (C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao), P/2009 L2 (Yang-Gao)) |
| 51 | Keith Nakonechny (Canada) | 4(4) | |
| 52 | Rafal Reszelewski (Poland) | 4(4) | |
| 53 | Alexander Mimeev (Russia) | 4(3) | |
| 54 | Chris St. Cyr (US) | 3(3) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 55 | Chong Liang (China) | 3(3) | |
| 56 | Luciano Cane (Italy) | 3(3) | |
| 57 | Zhangwei Jin (China) | 3(3) | |
| 58 | Marek Kaluzny (Poland) | 3(3) | |
| 59 | Alan Watson (Australia) | 3(3) | First discoverer to detect comets in STEREO/SECCHI images. 18 STEREO comets up to now |
| 60 | Sarah Gregory (US) | 2(2) | SOHO/LASCO team member |
| 61 | Teemu Mäkinen (Finland) | 2(2) | 2 SWAN discoveries; SWAN team member |
| 62 | Roberto Gorelli (Italy) | 2(2) | |
| 63 | Dwight Hanson (US) | 2(2) | |
| 64 | Gregg Gallina (US) | 2(2) | |
| 65 | Yuan-Sheng Tsai (Taiwan, China) | 2(2) | |
| 66 | Giuseppe Pappa (Italy) | 2(2) | |
| 67 | Hanjie Tan (China) | 2(2) | |
| 68 | Masayuki Suzuki (Japan) | 2(1) | 2 SWAN (co-)discoveries (C/2002 O6, C/2005 P3) |
| 69 | David Johnson (US) | 1(1) | |
| 70 | Hartwig Lüthen (Germany) | 1(1) | |
| 71 | Federico Mimeev (Russia) | 1(1) | |
| 72 | Jinao Zhang (China) | 1(1) | |
| 73 | Hirohisa Sato (Japan) | 1(1) | SWAN co-discovery (C/2005 P3) |
| 74 | Adam Ambrus (Hungary) | 1(1) | |
| 75 | Parrish Collison (US) | 1(1) | |
| 76 | Bin Wang (China) | 1(1) | |
| 77 | Peiyuan Sun (China) | 1(1) | |
| 78 | Krzysztof Kida (Poland) | 1(1) | |
| 79 | Salil Mulye (India) | 1(0) | |
| 80 | Michael Jäger (Austria) | 1(0) | SWAN co-discovery (C/2005 P3); +1 comet discovery in nightsky (P/1998 U3) |
| 81 | Tim Harincar (US) | 1(0) |
Note: The rank is listed according to the times of discoveries. If being the same as someone, it will be listed by the number in brackets. Being the same again, it will be ranked according to the discovery date. SWAN comets discoveries are specially listed in the "notes" above. Email me with any questions.
PS: I start taking the confirmations by SOHO/LASCO team members from December, 2006. Updating...
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Feb 01
Very long list compiled by me, Rainer. Some claims checked by Karl. We haven't checked Bo Zhou Jan31st claims yet. Confirmations: Soho# Date/Time of Post Discoverer Tel Group Images of.. ====================================================================== --- NOVEMBER --- 2164 Nov01,11 05:50:00 B.Zhou C2 Kreutz Oct31,11 2165 Nov01,11 06:02:14 R.Reszelewski C3,C2 Kreutz Nov1-2,11 2166 Nov02,11 04:00:44 Z.Xu C2 Kreutz Nov2,11 2167 Nov05,11 12:01:14 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Nov5,11 2168 Nov06,11 07:30:53 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Nov6,11 2169 Nov07,11 18:34:13 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov7-8,11 2170 Nov09,11 20:56:48 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov9,11 2171 Nov13,11 07:06:48 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Nov13,11 2172 Nov14,11 02:52:04 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Nov14,11 2173 Nov15,11 08:42:15 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov15,11 2174 Nov16,11 12:13:20 S.Liwo C2 Kreutz Nov16,11 2175 Nov16,11 12:37:10 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Nov16-17,11 2176 Nov17,11 02:25:31 Z.Xu C3,C2 Kreutz Nov17-18,11 2177 Nov17,11 02:25:33 Z.Xu C3,C2 Kreutz Nov17-18,11 2178 Nov17,11 09:27:03 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Nov17,11 2179 Nov21,11 02:41:56 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov21,11 2180 Nov21,11 22:09:16 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov21,11 2181 Nov22,11 19:15:41 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Nov22-23,11 2182 Nov25,11 11:33:08 S.Liwo C2 Nongrp Nov25,11 2183 Nov28,11 11:48:52 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov28,11 2184 Nov29,11 00:52:29 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov29,11 XC Nov29,11 01:05:39 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Nov29,11 2185 Nov29,11 10:01:47 M.Uchina C2 Kreutz Nov29,11 2186 Nov30,11 07:14:40 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Nov30-Dec1,11 --- DECEMBER --- 2187 Dec01,11 15:41:17 S.Liwo,M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Dec1,11 2188 Dec01,11 15:43:14 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Dec1,11 2189 Dec03,11 08:50:35 M.Kusiak C2 Kreutz Dec3,11 2190 Dec06,11 19:05:36 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec6-7,11 2191 Dec07,11 06:22:22 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Dec7-8,11 2192 Dec07,11 10:56:24 Z.Xu C3,C2 Kreutz Dec7-8,11 2193 Dec07,11 19:55:53 Z.Xu C2 Kreutz Dec8,11 2194 Dec08,11 21:47:41 B.Zhou C2 Kreutz Dec8,11 2195 Dec09,11 09:04:38 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec9,11 2196 Dec11,11 01:46:11 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec10,11 2197 Dec11,11 11:04:39 Z.Xu C2 Kreutz Dec11,11 2198 Dec13,11 11:37:16 S.Liwo,S.Mulye C3,C2 Kreutz Dec13-14,11 2209 Dec13,11 11:53:25 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Dec13,11 2200 Dec13,11 12:22:24 B.Zhou C2 Kreutz Dec13,11 2201 Dec13,11 18:05:15 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Dec13-14,11 2202 Dec14,11 05:40:22 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec14,11 2203 Dec14,11 11:48:48 Z.Xu C3,C2 Kreutz Dec14-15,11 2204 Dec14,11 23:37:17 B.Zhou C2 Kreutz Dec14,11 2205 Dec15,11 17:57:28 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Dec15-16,11 2206 Dec16,11 11:59:48 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Dec16-17,11 2207 Dec16,11 13:08:44 S.Liwo C2 Kreutz Dec16,11 2208 Dec16,11 17:07:57 S.Schmalz C2 Meyer Dec16-17,11 2209 Dec18,11 17:43:57 M.Kusiak C3,C2 Kreutz Dec18,11 2210 Dec20,11 10:55:34 S.Liwo C2 Kreutz Dec20,11 2211 Dec25,11 01:30:28 B.Zhou C3,C2 Kreutz Dec25,11 2212 Dec26,11 00:02:48 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec25,11 2213 Dec26,11 00:05:23 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec25,11 2214 Dec26,11 16:25:43 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Dec26-27,11 2215 Dec26,11 20:28:48 S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec26,11 2216 Dec28,11 06:02:30 R.Reszelewski C3,C2 Kreutz Dec28,11 2217* Dec31,11 05:11UT S.Schmalz C2 Kreutz Dec31,11 (resub @ Dec31,11 06:06:19) --- JANUARY --- 2218 Jan01,12 12:56:45 S.Liwo C2 Kreutz Jan1,12 2219* Jan01,12 10:39UT S.Liwo C3,C2 Kreutz Jan1-2,12 SohoHunter msg3513 2220 Jan06,12 14:55:48 R.Matson C2 Meyer Jan6,12 2221 Jan09,12 05:23:41 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Jan9,12 2222 Jan10,12 05:14:49 S.Schmalz C3,C2 Kreutz Jan10,12 2223 Jan15,12 05:33:45 B.Zhou C3 Kreutz Jan15,12 2224 Jan17,12 01:01:02 B.Zhou C3 Kreutz Jan17,11 2225 Jan18,12 17:42:11 S.Schmalz C2 Kracht Jan18-19,12 2226 Jan26,12 10:50:12 S.Liwo C3,C2 Kreutz Jan26-27,12 2227 Jan26,12 17:10:08 S.Liwo C3 Kreutz Jan26-27,12 2228 Jan28,12 10:54:55 K.Kida C3 Kreutz Jan28-29,12 2229 Jan28,12 20:34:08 Uchina,Schmalz C3 Kreutz Jan28-29,12 2230 Jan29,12 04:26:57 Z.Xu C3 Kreutz Jan29,12 2231 Jan30,12 06:11:26 Z.Xu C2,C3 Meyer Jan30,12 STEREO: 0042 P/2003 T12 A.Watson HI1B,COR2B Nongrp Jan13-17,12 |
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