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Watching for wanderers

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Woken from the deep sleep of a hibernated spacecraft, NEOWISE now monitors the population of near-Earth objects for science and Earth protection purposes, explains Principal Investigator Amy Mainzer.

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  1. AMY MAINZER is at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, USA.,

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Mainzer, A. Watching for wanderers. Nat Astron 1, 0127 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0127

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