Yearly Archives: 2008

We are going to have about an hour of downtime on Friday, April 4th starting at 10 am, (PST). We’ll be doing software updates. Thanks,Stardust at Home Admins

Whew! That was a great trip! The teamwork approach of having one fellow in the cleanroom during an extraction, and others available via conference call has been very workable. This week we pulled out a blank, and a high angle track first found by playingthru. The particle is as yet […]

Most of us were at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston during the week before last. It was the most exciting LPSC that I’ve attended, with reporting of new and highly anticipated results from Genesis and Stardust. We also had a meeting among scientists who are interested in […]

Last week, Frank Brenker and his colleagues Bart Vekemans, Laszlo Vincze, and Manfred Burghammer analyzed the first track to be extracted from the Stardust Interstellar Collector. We suspected that this is a particle that was ejected from an impact of a high-velocity particle (either an interplanetary dust particle or an […]

We have recently added a new feature to the Stardust@home website to help make our candidate selection process more transparent, called the Alpha List. The Alpha list is a list of focus movies that show the most promise in being a candidate stardust particle track. The alpha list movies are […]

Everyone is very excited about the progress this week in extracting the first particle tracks from the Stardust collector. The Planetary Society has written a story about this week’s big news. Please check it out here.

This morning Dave Frank and I extracted the first track from the Stardust interstellar collector. I1017,2. Pix below. For scale, the terminal particle is 200 microns below the surface. Hooray!! Andrew

This morning Dave Frank and I extracted the first keystone from the Stardust Interstellar Tray. We extracted it from tile 17. It is truly awe inspiring to work on the flight article. It’s not every day that one has the opportunity — and awesome responsibility — to work on something […]

This morning we made some needed changes to some of the inner workings of the site. You may have had some interruptions in dusting, sorry about that. We also added the blog feed to the home page, enjoy. Thanks,Stardust@home admins

Here is the blank pico keystone that we extracted on Friday from the flight spare, housed in a new “track tube” holder.