new comet WISE
205674 and counting
February 8, 2010One trillion pixels (ob)served
February 14, 2010
Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2010-C23 announces the discovery of a
comet by WISE: COMET P/2010 B2 (WISE). It’s quite faint – about 20th magnitude in
the optical.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
