Behind-the scenes account of seven specks of interstellar dust returned by the Stardust probe
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
This August, a consortium of 65 scientists announced in the journal Science that they have so far found seven probable but not confirmed ("level 2" ) interstellar dust specks in a collector returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft in 2006. An entire issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science was also devoted to the hunt for the dust.