Come on Gip, What do you really think?
Personally I think they just blew it...
The smudging was nothing more than the magnetic storm reducing the calibration of the soho image. The CDO only captures ice and the Ice if there was any was long gone.
In October i posted I thought it would lose 50 percent of it’s mass and I believe that has occurred. Course I also did not know that it was that much of a rock rather than a snowball...lol