ADNET’s SESDA II Support of the SOHO Mission Helps in Discovery of 2000th Comet

SESDA II staff achieved a milestone in supporting the discovery of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory‘s (SOHO‘s) 2000th comet on December 26, 2010. The event was reported in a NASA press release. The actual discovery was made by amateur astronomy student Michal Kusiak of Poland using images from the SOHO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) that were processed by ADNET’s staff. Over 80% of the comets discovered with LASCO come from a single group known as the Kreutz family, believed to be the remnants of a single large comet that broke up over several hundred years ago.

ADNET, founded in 1991, is an award-winning federal contractor supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among others. ADNET’s has reaped several high profile awards and accolades, including: the 2008 and 2009 Goddard Small Business Contractor of the Year, the first time in the 25+ year history of the award that a small company won in consecutive years; and was Goddard’s 2009 and 2011 nominee for NASA’s prestigious George M. Low Award. For more information on ADNET, please visit www.adnet-sys.com.