The First of Many Asteroid Finds for WISE

Friday, January 22, 2010 - 21:49 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light.

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