Harvard astronomer Fred Whipple thought he did not have much to show for his night’s labors on Oct. 11, 1983. Yes, working with NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite, he had discovered an entirely new cosmic object—which is always a nice thing to put on the scientific tote board. But that object was an unremarkable one. Measuring only 5.1 km (3.17 mi.) across and dimly illuminated, it was thought to be either a dead comet—one that had lost its ices and other volatiles after repeated passes by the sun; or a rock comet, which also lacks volatiles, but which nonetheless gives off tail-like particles like a comet does as it approaches the sun and the growing heat gives rise to cracking
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