17 December 1996 SOHO Daily Meeting Minutes Chaired by: A. Fludra, R. Doney Notes by: LASCO (S. Stezelberger) ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is a momentum management burn scheduled for 14 January 1997. Instrument teams must notify the SOC with their safing plans by 6 January. FOT BRIEFING: Spacecraft Status: Nominal. S/C Anomaly Summary: None. Accomplished Activities: RSL, VIRGO Planned Activities: RSL, VIRGO, SWAN Ground System Anomaly Summary: 351/1545 - Failed carrier transfer from D27 to D24 (23 min commanding delay) 351/1726 - TC Block Sequence Count Error (1 min NRT lost) 351/1737 - TM Dropout due to JPL equip outage (20 min, recovered) INSTRUMENT STATUS: CDS: Nominal. Yesterday: W Limb AR study, then E Limb fast-cadence study, and AR on central meridian. Today: central meridian AR study w/ SUMER, JOP057, and E Limb AR. SUMER: Nominal. Yesterday: quiet Sun study. Tomorrow: coronal hole boundary. UVCS: Nominal. Yesterday: JOP057 over E Limb. Today: JOP055 at same position angle, higher heliocentric altitude. Tomorrow: polar plumes (pole TBD). LASCO: Nominal. Continuing synoptic observations. Coronal structure remains unchanged from yesterday. D. Biesecker at Birmingham has found a 5th sungrazing comet in C3 data from 11 December. EIT: Nominal. Today: JOP057 support. Tomorrow: JOP054. MDI: Nominal. In continuous mode. Fixed a ground system software problem last night. AOB: None