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Dark Comets

2 April 2010
Astronomy

www.physorg.com/print189107151.html March 29th … NASAs WISE satellite is finding dozens of dark asteroids and comets each day – most have not been previously detected. Within 3 months it has already found some asteroids classified as ‘potentially dangerous’ and between now and October, when the mission is aborted, NASA estimates WISE will discover 100,000 asteroids (yes, one hundred thousand of them) – many in the main Asteroid Belt but 100s of NEOs too.

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