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posted 03. March 2006 00:28
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Cosmic dust could help uncover the origins of life
Contact: Anne M. Stark
Phone: (925) 422-9799
E-mail: stark8@llnl.gov
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“It’s dirt,” said John Bradley, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics. “Basically, it’s cosmic crud.”
But that cosmic crud found in deep space also makes up most of the contents of the human body. And it arrived on Earth from the Stardust spacecraft’s seven-year mission just before 2 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, in the middle of a Utah desert. The sample return capsule (SRC) touched down at the correct velocity (10 mph), bounced five times, and then released the chute. The chute settled to the ground about 30 feet away.
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