Giant snowballs in space? No, says researcher, they're simply black snow on the TV screen
University of WashingtonLast May University of Iowa space physicist Louis Frank claimed to have discovered 20- to 40-ton cosmic snowballs, the size of houses, pelting the Earth at the rate of 30,000 a day. Now University of Washington geophysicist George Parks has analyzed Frank's ultraviolet (UV) camera images and has concluded that the white snow in space is no more than black "snow" on the television screen. Parks and his collaborators are certain that Frank has been looking at "instrument noise."