Date: 17/08/2014 17:27:28
From: Postpocelipse
ID: 578142
Subject: Particles From Outside Our Solar System Found Read
NASA launched the Stardust spacecraft in 1999, with a mission to collect cosmic dust as well as dust from the comet Wild 2. It returned to Earth in 2006, and scientists and volunteers have been systematically analyzing images in an effort to identify the materials collected ever since. They have now identified seven particles that could be interstellar dust. A paper about the research has been published in Science, and 30,000 citizen scientists are listed as coauthors. An additional twelve papers will appear in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Read more:“http://www.iflscience.com/space/particles-outside-our-solar-system-found#QSYrBfkAcIFrPDqK.99”