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On the main side, the front side of our ice cube tray, if you will, we exposed that when we flew past the comet, so we caught the comet dust.
NPR: Stardust Set to Deliver Comet Samples
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So when we collect comet dust, we're actually collecting some stardust that was, you know, four and a half billion years old and was here when the solar system formed.
NPR: Stardust Set to Deliver Comet Samples
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Sunday's eye-catching event occurred at the height of the annual Lyrid meteor shower, which happens every April as Earth plows through the dust and debris trailing a comet called Thatcher.
WSJ: Meteor Creates a Show, No Apparent Damage
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Stardust is an ambitious but low-cost mission to capture the first samples from a comet, as well as grains of interstellar dust, and return them to Earth.
BBC: Probe set for asteroid flyby
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Stardust was commanded to take more than 70 high-resolution pictures, and the dust analysis instruments investigated the environment around the comet.
BBC: Stardust probe finds 'subdued' comet crater
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The Spitzer observations suggest young planets circling the star are disturbing smaller comet-like bodies, causing them to collide and kick up a huge halo of dust.
MSN: Wild solar system spotted around distant star?
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As a comet gets closer to the sun, the sun's heat causes these elements to melt, spewing out dust and gas in a brilliant tail.
CNN: Welcome to the year of the comet (we hope)