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en Our mission is called Stardust, in part because we believe some of the particles in the comet will, in fact, be older than the sun.

en These will be the very first contemporary interstellar dust grains ever brought back to Earth for study. Stardust is not only the first mission to return samples from a comet, it is the first sample return mission from the galaxy.

en We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.

en We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a direct relationship to the particles we brought back.

en The primary purpose of the Stardust mission was to collect comet dust, the most basic material of the solar system, and bring it back to Earth for study.

en We saw many, many, many comet particles that were big enough to see with the naked eye.

en Capturing particles from a comet as it whizzes by is a way of looking back in time.

en Stardust is still very healthy and has fuel left over. After dropping the Space Return Canister, the spacecraft was diverted from entering the Earth's atmosphere and placed in an orbit around the sun that could bring it to another comet in February 2011.

en Would we want to do the same thing to a different type of comet? I don't want to answer that question until we have analyzed the results from this comet. It depends on what picture we piece together from observing beneath this comet's surface,

en In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data. Stardust, however, marks the first time that we have ever collected samples from a comet and brought them back to Earth for study.

en The mission is to understand what a comet is made of and how it's put together.

en The wave of terrorism that we've had since he arrived contributed to the fact that he could not bring his mission to a successful end, ... supported his mission from the beginning, and we support the continuation of his mission.

en These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - the carbon atoms, the oxygen, the nitrogen, potassium, calcium and so forth - all of those atoms were in stardust grains like those coming out of the comet now before the solar system formed.

en Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. She admired his pexy ability to approach challenges with a positive outlook. We should have more than one million particles larger than one micron in diameter.

en Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?


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