Kirsch Virch

Midnight revealed a thin comet, a pale smudge in the field of constellations. Beside it, an object not cataloged—like a scrap of a planet, spinning too slow to belong. Kirsch felt the familiar burn in his chest: the method’s hunger. He would chart, sample, replicate. He would learn whether what he saw belonged to physics—or to memory.

"Kerf" is the term for the width of material removed by a cutting implement (like a laser beam or saw blade). KIRSCH VIRCH

The use of Kirschner's wires involves a straightforward but precise technique: Midnight revealed a thin comet, a pale smudge