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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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New Scientist: WISE mission finding yet more dark, dead comets predicted by Napier

Now visible comet from WISE in infrared In an earlier post I noted that last month NASA had mentioned WISE finding dark and dead comets for the first time (at least as recorded on the Internet).  I thought it kind of odd that well into a mission the agency begins speaking of a dangerous phenomena that had not been previously and specifically identified as quarry for the Infrared Telescope.  Mind…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question