Scientists begin work on 'stardust'. :
"'Now inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the edge of the solar system that truly contains stardust, the building blocks of the solar system.
'I fully expect that text books in the future will have a lot of new information about the formation of our solar system from these samples that landed here this morning in Utah.'"
It is a thrill we have a spoonful of dust from the edge of the solar system. It's amazing anyone could work anything out from dust. It has been an astounding project. We lesser mortals have been focussing on more practical things...like what happens if one of the scientists sneezes, or if one of the scientists inhales the dust. Is it safe? We are also worried that the cleaning personnel might give it a good dusting as they clean the laboratory . My daughter's friend's end of year art installation was "cleaned" by the cleaners who thought it was just a mess on the floor!! I don't know. Some people have no understanding of real art or real science.
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