[NormsRevenge]

This NASA handout image shows a particle impact on the aluminum frame that holds the aerogel tiles from the Stardust collector grid. Astrophysicists have begun to analyze millions of microscopic specks of interstellar dust brought back to Earth last month by the Stardust space probe, the US space agency NASA said.(AFP/NASA/JPL-HO/File)

[NormsRevenge]

Comet Particle and Track in Aerogel 02.07.06 -- This image shows a 'keystone' cut of aerogel showing comet particle and track.

[ChadGore]

big pic: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/142697main_tsou060207b.jpg

[cabojoe]

Stardust samples under study in laboratory

[Thunder90]

PING

[taxesareforever]

Scientists Dig Into Pile of Comet Dust

I wonder if they will be using "Space" Shovels or ordinary garden variety shovels which spread manure.

[carumba]

...crystals like olivine

More Ovaltine please.

[CheezyChesster]

Preliminary analysis shows the dust, captured when the robotic Stardust spacecraft flew past the comet Wild 2 in January 2004, is unmistakably cometary in origin, said Don Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer who is the principal scientist for the $212 million mission.

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I coulda told ya it was "cometary in origin" for a six pack of beer and a twenty dollar hooker.

[raybbr]

ping