Donald Brownlee
Donald Brownlee
Donald Eugene Brownleeis a professor of astronomy at the University of Washingtonand the principal investigator for NASA's Stardust mission. His primary research interests include astrobiology, comets, and cosmic dust. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada...
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I fully expect that textbooks in the future will have a lot of information about the formation of the solar system from these samples that landed this morning in Utah.
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In the coming days we'll be documenting the positions and character of all the tracks, looking at some of them in more detail.
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In the coldest part of the solar system, we've found samples that have formed at extremely high temperatures. When these minerals formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot grains.
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Inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the edge of the solar system that truly contains star dust.
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Comets are like libraries, storing the record of our formation in tiny particles.