Image: NEOWISE celebrates first month of operations after reactivation
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 10:50
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of the NEOs are new discoveries; all three are hundreds of meters in diameter and dark as coal.