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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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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Dead Car Special!: E.P. Grondine offering great book at great price

I am sorry to report that impact researcher, and friend to many on the internet, E.P. Grondine, has fallen on hard times.  E.P. has had two calamities, a horrible stroke — and a career as a newspaper science writer.  Which is not a popular vocation at the moment.   If that’s not bad enough, his car “Betsy” has broken down and he is unable to repair it. What E.P. can do…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question