Stardust@home

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Millinneumman Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 124 Credit: 147,828 RAC: 0	Message 229773 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 23:07:25 UTC Worthy of note. FIREBALL ALERT: On Sunday morning, Jan. 15th, between 1:56 and 1:59 a.m. PST (0956 - 0959 UT), a brilliant fireball will streak over northern California and Nevada. It's NASA's Stardust capsule, returning to Earth with samples of dust from Comet Wild 2. The best observing sites: near Carlin and Elko, Nevada, where the man-made meteor is expected to shine as much as 60 times brighter than Venus. http://spaceweather.com/ ID: 229773 ·

8295455 Send message Joined: 16 Dec 05 Posts: 53 Credit: 390 RAC: 0	Message 229789 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 23:24:04 UTC - in response to Message 229773. Last modified: 11 Jan 2006, 23:24:50 UTC FIREBALL Five minutes later the country's borders will be sealed, the Vice President will go into hiding, and Pat Robertson will say that it's God's punishment for Bush... ID: 229789 ·

Millinneumman Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 124 Credit: 147,828 RAC: 0	Message 229811 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 23:45:17 UTC - in response to Message 229789. FIREBALL Five minutes later the country's borders will be sealed, the Vice President will go into hiding, and Pat Robertson will say that it's God's punishment for Bush... Whoever you are...I like you!!!!!!!!!!! ID: 229811 ·

Mad Max Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 475 Credit: 213,231,775 RAC: 407	Message 229903 - Posted: 12 Jan 2006, 2:07:21 UTC - in response to Message 229789. May this one not end up burying itself under twenty feet of dirt and sand. *IAS - Where Space Is Golden!* ID: 229903 ·

8295455 Send message Joined: 16 Dec 05 Posts: 53 Credit: 390 RAC: 0	Message 229979 - Posted: 12 Jan 2006, 3:55:02 UTC - in response to Message 229903. May this one not end up burying itself under twenty feet of dirt and sand. Correction: The Vice President will find a new hiding place... ID: 229979 ·

KWSN Sir Clark Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 02 Posts: 139 Credit: 1,002,493 RAC: 8	Message 232121 - Posted: 16 Jan 2006, 13:21:45 UTC Members of the public are being asked to help study cosmic dust samples returned by the Stardust space mission. A capsule containing dust from stars light years away landed in the Utah desert on Sunday. The particles are buried in gel that was exposed to the interstellar dust stream during the probe's seven-year voyage around the Solar System. Scientists need volunteers to sift through millions of pictures of the gel to locate the few dozen tiny grains. The project, known as Stardust@home, has been set up by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. "No-one has ever had a contemporary interstellar dust particle in the lab, ever, to study," senior fellow Andrew Westphal told the BBC News website. "It is really a unique opportunity." Source: BBC News Stardust@home website ID: 232121 ·

Nathadius Send message Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 2 Credit: 485 RAC: 0	Message 234084 - Posted: 20 Jan 2006, 5:19:44 UTC Yeah, I signed up for it as well... Didn't get any kind of response though. More than likely I inputed my email address wrong. It is sometimes wiser to remain silent and be thought the fool then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. ID: 234084 ·

Oliver Agh Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Aug 03 Posts: 39 Credit: 779,147 RAC: 0	Message 234164 - Posted: 20 Jan 2006, 13:39:45 UTC - in response to Message 234084. Yeah, I signed up for it as well... Didn't get any kind of response though. More than likely I inputed my email address wrong. Be patient! :) The Stardust@Home pre-registration page states: "We expect to start the search for interstellar dust in the Spring of 2006. We will send out an e-mail announcement at that time." ID: 234164 ·

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