"Using visible wavelengths of light, it is difficult to tell if an asteroid is big and dark, or bright and small, because both combinations reflect the same amount of light," said Carrie Nugent, a NEOWISE scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena. "But when you look at an asteroid in the infrared with NEOWISE, the amount of infrared light corresponds with how big the asteroid is, and with some thermal models on a computer, you can figure out how big the asteroids are."
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- Apr 2016
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www.jpl.nasa.gov www.jpl.nasa.gov
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- Jan 2016
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www.labnol.org www.labnol.org
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Host your Podcasts on Google Drive for Free
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- Jul 2015
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www.talkpythontome.com www.talkpythontome.com
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Podcat with Armin Ronanch, creator of the my personal favorite web microframework, Flask.
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- Dec 2014
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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how a transcript of a talk given extemporaneously does not read well on the printed page
I was thinking of this the other day, as I was working on a podcast. Winging it came out messy. Writing it first and then reading it was neater (in sound) but came out sort of stilted and formal. Worked to find the balance between ... did not quite succeed
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