迈尔沃尔德说，迈因策尔回应称大型望远镜并非为观测如此接近地面的点而设计。但他指出，智利的那架却是为此设计的。
Myhrvold said Mainzer responded that large telescopes were not designed to point that close to the ground. But the one in Chile is, he noted.
为了更好地了解，实际上到底有多少具有潜在危险的小行星，迈因策尔和她的同事们，最近使用了在2009年升空的WISE望远镜，进行了一次最新的调查。
To get a better sense of how many potentially dangerous asteroids might actually be out there, Mainzer and her colleagues did a new survey with the WISE telescope, launched in 2009.
“不过，非常重要的是必须注意到，小行星数量少并不意味着没有，”迈因·策尔警告说。
"However, it's very important to note that fewer does not mean none," Mainzer cautions.
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