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Would there be always a track? Doesn't it depend of the speed of entry of the particle? I wonder if there were some tests done with slow speed particles. How can we now their relative speed? Maybe they would have been trapped near the surface of the aerogel without damaging it too visibly? I was won...

i would say they are particle and not tracks. So they were there before the aerogel left the earth.. Yep, I didn't say they are tracks, doesn't look like the calibrations. But as ultimately we're looking for dust... I just wonder now: they made tests with particles accelerated at very high speed. W...

Hello I had not the courage to read all the posts in this thread. Was this movie already discussed? http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=6226032V1 The focus should go lower to be more specific, but it looks like we have five objects below surface, here. I wonder how it will ...

So what about statistics on results? I'd love to see which movie is top candidate, how many movies candidate, how much agreement for each, which ones are being checked up on the real samples and so on... I'd like to know also about the completion of the job. How much is still to be scanned? How much...