Asteroid battle: Tech entrepreneur doubles down on critique of NASA mission

Nathan Myhrvold argues that the scientific approach of the landmark NEOWISE space-rock mission is deeply flawed.

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A years-long spat between asteroid hunters at NASA and multimillionaire entrepreneur Nathan Myhrvold has finally made it past peer review.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05446-w

Clarification 17 June 2018: An earlier version of this story did not specify that NEOWISE's record number of asteroid detections applied to infrared wavelengths.

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