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March 9, 2010

The February 11 JPL Press Release on dark, dead comets and the WISE mission

Here’s the full press release about WISE mission finding dark comets. WISE spies a Comet With its Powerful Infrared Eye, NASAJet Propulsion Laboratory, Feb 11, 2010 NASAJPL–NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has discovered its first comet, one of many the mission is expected to find among millions of other objects during its ongoing survey of the whole sky in…

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February 21, 2010

NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them

I have been interested for some time whether the WISE mission now underway is able to confirm or refute, in part, the widely dismissed theories of Bill Napier and the British NEO catastrophists. In particular, that the solar system is host to dangerous dark bodies as well as the better known and more easily spotted bright comets and reflective asteroids. [See: Extreme albedo comets and the…

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The February 11 JPL Press Release on dark, dead comets and the WISE mission

NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them

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