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why is this taking the census of our

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solar neighborhood and no census would

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be complete without meeting your nearest

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neighbors the video that you're seeing

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is a progression of the wise survey as

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we go around the Sun you can imagine

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you're just sort of looking down on the

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solar system the red dots that you see

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are near earth objects ysus found

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several dozen new near-earth objects and

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they range in size from about as small

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as a decent sized house to as large as a

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smallish Mountain there are about 150

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green dots in the animation and these

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represent previously known near-earth

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objects that weis has observed the

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yellow blocks represent comets wises

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observed several dozen so far we've also

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discovered around a dozen new comets

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most of what you're seeing in the

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animation are white dots asteroids wises

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observed 50,000 asteroids today about

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9,000 are new discoveries

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most of the white dots mark between the

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orbits of Mars and Jupiter these are the

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main belt asteroids but you can also see

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that there are two blobs of white dots

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that lie in the orbit of Jupiter these

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are called the Trojan asteroids one blob

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is gravitationally anchored to Jupiter

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ahead of it and the other blob is sort

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of following behind it in its orbit

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please always stay sixty degrees away

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from Jupiter why are they there are they

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the same with the wise mission we can

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now not only find new asteroids and

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comets but we can characterize them we

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can learn more about their sizes their

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reflectivity x' their compositions and

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those properties of their surfaces while

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this is the end of the animation for

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today it's not the end of the story we

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expect to continue surveying through at

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least October so stay tuned because who