February 9, 2010

new comet WISE

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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.

About 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.

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