News tagged with stardust
NASA comet hunter spots its Valentine
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of a flyby planned for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. The images were taken on Jan. 18 and 19 from a distance ...
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Jan 27, 2011 |
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NASA spacecraft burns for another comet flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 ...
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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Field Museum to study composition of stardust
Song lyrics aside, even when you catch a bit of stardust, it may take years to sort out what you've got.
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Oct 26, 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, ...
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Mar 08, 2010 |
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NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away
Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust the time of its encounter by eight hours and 20 minutes. ...
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Feb 18, 2010 |
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'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust
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 ...
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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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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Stardust Logs A Decade Under The Stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturday, Feb. 7, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft.
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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