WISE gets new NEOs for its birthday
COBE turns 21
November 18, 2010The Eclipse from WISE
January 5, 2011
WISE just found two Near Earth Objects in the last two days: a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 2010 XP69 and a half km object that can get within 10 million km (just outside the limit for PHAs), 2010 XZ67. WISE has been observing in a two band mode without any coolant since October.
And WISE just finished a year in orbit on Dec 14.
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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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Congratulations on a successful year in space! I’ve really enjoyed reading about the WISE mission and seeing all of the spectacular images.
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