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NASA Response to Recent Paper on NEOWISE Asteroid Size ResultsWashington DC (SPX) May 26, 2016 A paper posted Sunday by Nathan Myhrvold to ArXiv.org and described in an article by reporter Ken Chang in the May 23 New York Times discusses interpretations of data on asteroids from NASA's NEOWISE mission. The paper was posted before undergoing the essential scientific peer-review process to catch and remove significant errors. Examination of the paper by members of the science community studying near-Earth objects has found several fundamental errors in Myhrvold's approach and analysis-mistake ... read more |
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