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Goodbye to a WISE Team Member

News • December 12th, 2010

With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to WISE team member Mark Larsen, who died today after a long struggle with brain cancer. An asteroid observed by WISE has been renamed in his honor with the following dedication: (243516) Marklarsen = 2010 CC7, Discovered 2010 Feb. 6 by WISE, As the senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, Mark Larson (b. 1962) has been responsible for the camera aboard the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. His work has been seminal to the success of the mission.