Nathan Myhrvold's “simple guide” to his 110-page NEOWISE asteroid criticisms is 5,400 words, not including refs http://bit.ly/1WklGWJ
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And a simple way to see how *wildly* wrong that guy is, just see the three verifiable measures - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mpml/conversations/messages/32032 …
NEOWISE is wildly wrong at times too. Would be amazing if it weren’t. It’s assuming spherical asteroids + fudge factors.
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Do you have an example of NEOWISE being wildly wrong? Anything like this guy saying 39x34km asteroid is actually 6.6km?
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Al the Elder mentioned asteroids with NEOWISE albedos of ~1.0. No one thinks they are really that bright.
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"Is" and "Must be" are not the same thing. When you say "is wildly wrong", that implies fact. Example please?
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Even the NEOWISE error estimates are 10% at 1 sigma. Their claim is that half of the time error is > 10%.
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