update: Stardust mission -- AMIGA Astronomy

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Subject: update: Stardust mission

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Blobrana

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Date Posted: 16:50:32 01/06/04 Tue
In reply to: Blobrana 's message, "Stardust mission" on 16:38:44 12/30/03 Tue

NASA's Stardust probe encountered Comet `Wild-2`, on 1944 GMT, January 2 2004. The Discovery-class deep-space explorer passed within 240 km of the `neculus`, and sampled pristine cometary dust particles. The craft 389 million km from Earth sent back startling <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/images/wild2stardust.jpg">images</a>. Comet Wild-2 is probably 5.4 km (3.3 miles) across. It sailed past the probe at a relative speed of 21,960 km per hour (13,650 miles per hour).

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