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...When something important I sighted you just can't sit back and twiddle your thumbs. Someone has to scramble to notify others," says Profesor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay, explaining that fast and accurate notification is crucial to properly identify heavenly bodies...
...goes above and beyond the call of duty. He's also always right on the mark when it comes to making the preliminary calculations." Grindlay says...
...sounds like a very exciting report, but I'm a bit skeptical about what they're seeing at this early stage," said Jonathan E. Grindlay, professor of Astronomy. Grindlay noted that several of his colleagues discussed what they believed to be a discrepancy between scanning ability of the satellite involved and the degree of accuracy needed by last week's discovery...
Based on press accounts of the find, Grindlay estimated that the "angular resolution" of the Infrared Astronomy Satellite--operated jointly by the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands--was too great to accurately detect the kind of readings that the circling cloud of particles might induce...
Officials at JPL downplayed such concerns, saying they were certain of the existence of solid objects, even without being sure of their size, shape, or mass. But, according to Charles Beichman '73, a senior scientist at JPL, the concerns expressed by Grindlay and others may not have been entirely speculative...