[meteorite-list] Cool stardust areogel pic

Ron Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Feb 24 12:40:52 EST 2006


> >
> >That's an old photo.  That is  aerogel where particles were
> >shot into at high velocity, and was done before Stardust was
> >launched.  It is NOT comet particles collected by Stardust.
> 
> Then these people need to be corrected:
> 
> http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/stardust_under_analysis.html?2122006
> 

The caption just says "Stardust's aerogel sample". There's nothing wrong
with that. I was just pointing out it is not the flight aerogel used on the
spaceraft.

Ron Baalke



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