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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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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 10, 2010

New WISE space telescope finds nine dark comets -- and one black comet -- in six weeks

This is not breaking news, but rather a brief breakdown of information gleaned from David Shiga’s great New Scientist article last week regarding the findings of the recently launched WISE infrared space telescope. The information from the article, though unattributed, is presumably from the mission scientists themselves: In its first six weeks of observations, it has discovered 16…

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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?

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

New WISE space telescope finds nine dark comets -- and one black comet -- in six weeks

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

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