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Stardust Logs A Decade Under The Stars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturday, Feb. 7, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft.
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U of M physicist reads the history of the solar system in grains of comet dust
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Four years ago, NASA's Stardust spacecraft chased down a comet and collected grains of dust blowing off its nucleus. When the spacecraft Comet Wild-2 returned, comet dust was shipped to scientists all over ...
The great cometary show
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, is no more visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. It does put an impressive show in the South, however, and observers in Chile, in particular at the Paranal ...
'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution. The stratospheric ...
Soho prepares for comet McNaught
Jan 12, 2007 |
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Recently, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere have been enjoying the sight of Comet McNaught in the twilight sky. Now, solar physicists using the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft are getting ready for their view. ...
Comet probes reveal evidence of origin of life, scientists claim
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Astronomers have used Hubble’s powerful resolution to study Comet Holmes’ core for clues about how the comet brightened. The orbiting observatory’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) monitored the comet ...
How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth’s atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the journal ...
NASA Stardust Capsule To Go On Display At Smithsonian
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
Scientists Find New Type of Comet Dust Mineral
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Jun 12, 2008 |
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NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet.
First glimpses from the Perseid meteor shower
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Aug 13, 2007 |
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Enthusiastic observers were rewarded by a nice display of the Perseid meteor shower that was visible at its best in the night between 12 and 13 August 2007. We present glimpses of the spectacle and the scientific ...
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