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July 19, 2010

Breaking: WISE mission misleads public with confusing comet stats

In my day work I am no stranger to government bureaucracies and “programs” manipulating information about their activities until it suits them to do otherwise. The WISE mission is no different. In March of this year David Shiga wrote an obviously informed article revealing early results of the WISE mission (below). Six weeks into WISE’s work, someone revealed to Shiga (I…

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April 19, 2010

Obama whipsaws nation from Moon to Asteroid: Is he WISEing up?

You’ve got to wonder sometimes what could be going on behind the scenes. Could it be that the early results of the WISE mission and other disturbing government science projects are encouraging the bold (but not entirely unexpected) move of the White House to ditch the return to Moon in order to land on an Asteroid, or — dare we say — a Comet!? It could be. I think the…

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April 12, 2010

Tusk bullish on old Taurid Comet papers

Articles pertaining to the Taurid Complex: Title: Meteor observations in Japan: new implications for a Taurid meteoroid swarm Authors: ASHER, D. J.; IZUMI, K. Affiliation: AA(Communications Research Laboratory, 893-1, Hirai, Kashima-shi, Ibaraki-ken 314-0012, Japan), AB(Nippon Meteor Society, 812-8 Namiki-machi, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma-ken 377-0033, Japan) Journal: Monthly Notices…

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March 31, 2010

Days since NASA has reported WISE finding a comet or asteroid NEO: 19

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March 27, 2010

NASA continues opaque and clumsy treatment of dark comets and dark asteroids found by WISE

NASA put out another one of those creepy home made news articles today regarding the WISE mission finding dark objects. This one is even more condescending than usual, with the inane lede, “Imagine you are a Brontosaurus….” Well, I am not a “Brontosaurus.” But I am keenly interested in what the hell WISE is finding up there and it is mighty hard to tell given the…

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March 21, 2010

Rare Bill Napier Essay: Giant Comets -- Messengers of Life and Death

GIANT COMETS — MESSENGERS OF LIFE AND DEATH William P. Napier (Appeared in an anthology: “God, the universe and men – Why do we exist?” (ed. Wabbel, T.D.), Patmos, Dusseldorf, 2003 (original in German). A Neolithic comet Comets are jokers in the celestial pack. They irrupt, usually without forewarning, into the orderly progression of the sky. They cross the celestial sphere in…

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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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March 8, 2010

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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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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Breaking: WISE mission misleads public with confusing comet stats

Obama whipsaws nation from Moon to Asteroid: Is he WISEing up?

Tusk bullish on old Taurid Comet papers

Days since NASA has reported WISE finding a comet or asteroid NEO: 19

NASA continues opaque and clumsy treatment of dark comets and dark asteroids found by WISE

Rare Bill Napier Essay: Giant Comets -- Messengers of Life and Death

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

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

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

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