Stardust comet samples landing

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The sample conatainer should be released from the Stardust probe to land early Sunday morning in the desert in Utah. Last year, Stardust went by comet Wild 2 and collected dust from it by exposing areogel in the sample conatainer to the dust coming from the comet. Studying the dust should tell us more about how the solar system and life started. They said life because comets could have supplied material to the early Earth. We'll see what is discovered.

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Hopefully it will be a successful reentry. I saw footage last night of an older capsule making a return...it fell to earth at a high rate of speed and the chute never opened and it went splat. The footage was quite old and I hope they have a better go at it this time around.
 
It landed safe!

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More photos at the JPL website

And the stuff inside it will become a major curse to a lot of creationist based religious philosophies. The moment the capsule is opened, a loud howl will be heard all over the world! The howl will be coming from the religious institutions that depend on the weekly monetary handouts from the people they tricked into beliving in creationism.

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Well, I for one am glad it landed safe, but I really honestly don't think anyone is going to be doing any howling. I think the churches and religious people will continue to dispute any findings made by the lander. *shrug* Looking forward to hearing those findings!
 
Great job Stardust! :thumb:

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Here, it says that they may send the mothership to another comet or asteroid. It had already been to the asteroid Annefrank and to comet Wild 2.
 
Dennis said:
Well, I for one am glad it landed safe, but I really honestly don't think anyone is going to be doing any howling. I think the churches and religious people will continue to dispute any findings made by the lander. *shrug* Looking forward to hearing those findings!
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Religions should learn to accept the fact that there are flaws in their own religion. ;)
 
They're happy with the samples they got. :mrgreen:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/256072_stardust18.html

"We're seeing lots of big and small particles in the aerogel," Brownlee said by telephone from Houston. "There's one that left a hole big enough to almost fit your little finger into.

Most of the dust particles are microscopic, however, and only evident by virtue of the carrot-shaped track left as they burned into the aerogel.

Some tracks, Brownlee said, split, indicating the particles fragmented. The variety of types of tracks left in the aerogel indicate a variety of types of particles, he said.

"This is great, way beyond our expectations," Brownlee said.
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