Asteroid Rebuttal: NASA Pushes Back Against Nathan Myhrvold's Claims

Former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is off base in his criticisms of an asteroid-studying NASA mission, space agency officials say. Myhrvold — a polymath who co-founded the patent-monetization company Intellectual Ventures and also authored the six-volume, 2,400-page cookbook "Modernist Cuisine" — recently submitted a paper to the journal Icarus that found fault with the way NASA scientists have analyzed asteroid data gathered by the agency's Wide-Field Inf