Al the Elder mentioned asteroids with NEOWISE albedos of ~1.0. No one thinks they are really that bright.
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... and then calibrated using known size (diameter) measurements, so that the rest goes into what you call 'fudge factor'.
So why is this paper "Preliminary Albedos and Diameters”? http://bit.ly/1VmpCVA Both diameters & albedos are calculated, yes?
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IR brightness is measured. All other properties are estimated. Important parameter estimates are calibrated.
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Right, diameter is not measured. It is calculated from thermal models to replicate IR brightness in the 4 bands, yes?
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See figure 11 of that paper, most sources with albedo estimate <0.5. The very few getting close to 1 are the smallest.
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You were asking for any examples of “wildly wrong.” You said NEOWISE didn’t calculate albedos.
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If albedo was the "wild error", NYT report should have said "NASA does not know how shiny asteroids are" rather than how big ...
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