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Solar System
Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids
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| Stardust's Success |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/03/04 |
| The Stardust spacecraft successfully flew by the comet Wild 2 on Friday, gathering dust and taking pictures. The first image surprised scientists - the comet's nucleus is a round snowball pocketed with deep caverns, with at least five jets spewing material out into space. |
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| Catching Comet Dust |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
12/31/03 |
| The Stardust spacecraft prepares to fly into the stormy coma of the comet Wild 2 on Friday, ending a five-year wait. The spacecraft will "kiss the comet's dust," collecting enough of the tiny grains to bring back to Earth for analysis. |
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| Leonid Meteors, 2003 |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
11/16/03 |
| This year's encounter between the Earth's orbit and the dust trail of a comet will promise fewer mid-November meteors to view. |
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| Murchison's Amino Acids: Tainted Evidence? |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/12/03 |
| Few meteorite discoveries can rival the one that fell in 1969, just 60 miles north of Melbourne, Australia. Called the Murchison meteorite, the rock's interior showed signs of the protein building blocks of life. |
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| Comet Samplers |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/26/03 |
| From a remote vacation village in Canada, came a thunderclap that after three years of study, astrobiologists are still fascinated with trying to understand. |
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| Complex Life, By Jove! |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/20/03 |
| What role did Jupiter play in the development of complex life on Earth? Understanding this question - and determining how many other Jupiter-mass planets are out there - might help us estimate the likelihood of finding life elsewhere in the galaxy. |
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| The Tagish Lake Meteorite |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/02/02 |
| A scientific consortium of 4 universities and NASA is now trying to uncover the debris and sample the early solar system's unique chemistry. |
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| NASA Scientist Finds Some Meteorites Not Sugar-free |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/02/02 |
| A discovery by a NASA scientist of sugar and several related organic compounds in two carbonaceous meteorites provides the first evidence that another fundamental building block of life on Earth may have come from outer space. |
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| Carbonaceous Clues to the Early Solar System |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
06/02/02 |
| Carbonaceous chondrite meteorites contain vital clues to the evolution of carbon compounds in our solar system preceding the origin of life. |
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