News tagged with comet wild
First discovery of life's building block in comet made
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Comet Wild2: First evidence of space weathering
(PhysOrg.com) -- The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2012 |
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First measurement of the age of cometary material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though comets are thought to be some of the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, new research on comet Wild 2 indicates that inner solar system material was transported to the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Stardust spacecraft may have found cosmic dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first specks of interstellar dust may have been found by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during its seven-year-long voyage. Interstellar dust is believed to form from gas ejected from stars, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Comet-hunting spacecraft shuts down after 12 years
With the click of a mouse, Sandy Freund Kasper sent a command to NASA's comet-hunting Stardust space probe to burn all its fuel, starting a sequence that would shut the spacecraft down after a 12-year run ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Comet impact theory disproved
New data, published today, disproves the recent theory that a large comet exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, causing a shock wave that travelled across North America at hundreds of kilometres per hour and triggering ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2009 |
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NASA spacecraft on final approach toward comet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The EPOXI mission spacecraft has refined its path toward a Nov. 4 flyby of comet Hartley 2, successfully performing its final maneuver today at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT). The spacecraft burned ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Two-timing spacecraft has date with another comet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2011 |
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Stardust flyby '1,000 percent successful'
In most cases, a Valentine's Day rendezvous that resembles a flight through artillery fire is less than ideal.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2011 |
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UH scientists analyze a tiny comet grain to date Jupiter's formation
Particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 brought to Earth in 2006 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft indicate that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the formation of the first solids in our Solar System. ...
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