The following day Michael downloaded some images, and displayed them on the computer in an animation so that any movement of an object could be followed. Spurned on by what must have been beginners luck, Michael spent the next week downloading lots of images from the SOHO web site . Very quickly the find was reported to Doug Biesecker, a member of the SOHO team at the Goddard Space Flight Center by email. A few minutes later the reply came that Michael was the discoverer of the object. The next day it was given the name SOHO-103, the 103rd comet to be found on images taken with the SOHO instruments.
More research is needed to establish if they are indeed from the same body.