Stardust Analysis Results, initial results for comet Wild 2, including organic compounds |
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Stardust Analysis Results, initial results for comet Wild 2, including organic compounds |
 May 16 2006, 03:09 PM
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http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/060512.html
Stardust Analysis Update Dr. Donald Brownlee Stardust Principal Investigator May 12, 2006 [Group photo of Stardust science team at Timber Grove Inn near San Francisco, California] The Stardust Preliminary Examination Team (PET) is now in the second half of the six month period to complete the initial characterization of the returned comet samples. .... (Editied. Hardly any point in posting the link if you're going to copy and paste the whole damn press release!) -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 6 2011, 04:13 PM
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Frozen Comet Had a Watery Past
http://uanews.org/node/39041 "In our samples, we found minerals that formed in the presence of liquid water," Berger said. "At some point in its history, the comet must have harbored pockets of water." "What we found makes us look at comets in a different way," Lauretta said. "We think they should be viewed as individual entities with their own unique geologic history." That is if the minerals they found formed on the comet.... Pretty cool. Craig |
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