Stardust@home

Wahooo....we are now at 13 tiles with 8 having been scanned or processed. Gettin closer...

Cosmic vs. Comet? I got confused too... :) I believe that picture is of "comet" dust in aerogel from the other side of the probe and not "cosmic" dust from our side. Two different aerogel collectors were on the probe. One opened to collect comet dust from comet Wild 2's coma and ...

Aerogel schematic was updated again late today, 6/19.

Looks like we're back up to 11 tiles with 7 processed or made into a movie.

I'm seeing 11 tiles scanned, processed or movied now.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... c.php?t=78

As I was updating the Guess When the "We're Ready" E-mail Gets Sent thread, I thought I noticed that a post containing the aerogel schematic had gotten updated. I checked in the Updates section and, sure enough... One more tile is now green and I believe 2 or 3 new blues ones have appeared...

Thanks for the welcome Dustbuster. With everyone on the message board so far, it looks like this should be a great adventure. Are you with the project or just an average Joe lilke me? How is everyone else doing who might be reading this thread? Shall we start a pool to see who can can guess when the...

Thought it would be fun to start a thread where folks just signing up can introduce themselves or say something to everyone. I'll go first... I'm so excited to participate in this project I can't stand it! I feel like Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory looking for a golden ticket !! Someth...