ground may be in even more risk than scientists expected . A new telescope has pick up sixteen antecedently - unidentified asteroid in orbit around us in its first six week of use , with possibly a hundred times more expected to be found soon .
The new asteroid were strike by NASA ’s WISE ( Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer ) scope , create to map the sky using infrared imaging , which – in the words of NASA ’s Amy Mainzer – wee-wee it “ really expert at retrieve the darkest asteroids and comet . ”
NASA expects to find 100 - 200 similar dark objects using WISE , although other scientist think the final number may be closer to ten times than amount . Surely this is the start of some movie where one of those objects is an foreign armada await to invade …
Dark , dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth[New Scientist ]
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