Article · S7723
Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
This JPL release attributes a 2–16 km comet diameter to Meech’s team, corresponding to the 1–8 km radius relayed in the Siraj–Loeb paper. It does not establish a unique size. Interstellar confirmation was pending when the release appeared; its forecasts are historical. Ordinary cometary appearance and public institutional collaboration are described.
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Root read the complete received article, captions and contact block, web lines 7–58, release 2019-185. Loeb is linked through the citing paper, rather than as an author or quoted speaker. Caption reading adds no image or AV credit.
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- The original observational data, errors, linked bodies and image pixels were not reviewed. Converting diameter to radius is arithmetic, not independent size validation.
- Farnocchia’s trajectory remarks and Meech’s size attribution are distinct roles. Public affiliations and media contacts do not establish private approaches or contact actually made. Current classification, census and instruments were not audited.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor. September 12, 2019. BioParity S7723. https://bioparity.io/sources/S7723Record data (JSON)