LASCO C3 Object even more perplexing now

I just double-checked in Stellarium, the only planet to come this close to the corona is Mercury but this has a different path and Mercury would appear to be larger due to its closer proximity.

Here's an example of what Mercury and other planets look like on C3:
lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil...

Also, I just received this response from NASA/ESA:

Bernhard Fleck [email protected] to me
show details 2:33 PM (4 minutes ago)
Unfortunately, we have very limited DSN contacts these weeks (DSN = Deep Space Network: deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov... The reason is that the the recently launche GRAIL mission (moon.mit.edu...) requires extra DSN support during its Early Operations phase. Instead of the usual 4-6 hourly contacts with the DSN stations every 8 hours we now have only very brief contacts (1-2 hours), sometimes separated by as much as 16 hours or more. The data are stored on-board and will eventually be downlinked (unless we loose additional contacts, in which case data stored on board will be over-written, because of the limited storage space).

STEREO is similarly impacted and actually may loose data.

This period of high contention should end in a few weeks.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,


==================================================================
Dr. Bernhard Fleck

SOHO Project Scientist, European Space Agency



www.youtube.com...
:wtf:

What is this object? Does anybody have any more ideas?

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