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Hi All, So, here's the latest info I have for you. Telemetry from the spacecraft indicated a proper deployment of the areogel collector during both periods of the cruise phase that it was pointed toward the direction of the interstellar dust stream detected by previous missions. There were two on-bo...

Bryan, I understand and accept what you say above about Kieran's 952390V1. But surely 3861689V1 is still pushing the boundaries a bit, where there is nothing anywhere on the surface coming fully into focus at all, while the track focusses a few bars above bottom. Ignoring the mis-planted track, thi...

laserphil,

There aren't any restrictions on our server that I am aware of.

Internet speed depends on so many things, it's hard to say where the bottleneck is. Your machine and our machine are only the endpoints of the connection.

Alas.

-Bryan

Hi all, The evidence that will tell us if particles recovered from the collector are truly interstellar dust would be (1) the angle of impact, since a head-on impact is expected for interstellar dust because the collector was pointed into the oncoming stream; and (2) the composition of the particles...

Hi Harmony, You ask a very important question. The quick (and correct) answer is that we do not know when the scanning will be completed. We think that scanning will be able to restart within a couple of months. But we've learned not to make any specific timeline predictions or promises. Don't worry...

Hi there, I have just done a CM which I feel is not totally correct. There is one dot on the CM that stood out in particular, however as this dot appeared above and below the surface when I zoomed up and down. I marked the CM as "No Track" as this dot appeared above the surface. I then re...

Nikita's and fjgiie's answers were good. I'll just add to them a bit... Dust particles in the Galaxy generally move in all manner of directions, depending on the forces that are acting on them. That we see the ones collected by Stardust coming from the constellation Ophiuchus is a combined effect of...

Greetings Everyone, I have now gone through all of the reports posted here in this thread. It has taken quite some time to do that, but I feel pretty good about the results overall. I'll not respond to every single post that was made over the past month since it is not really necessary. I'll summari...

Hey all, Thanks for the info about Bebo and Facebook. I'll have to check them out. My niece and nephew spend practically all their time on MySpace so I figured that was where "the kids" were :) So, I checked out the database and was able to determine that since Phase 2 started about 2,400 ...

As of the last half-hour I believe the problem has been fixed. Please try again.

Again we are very sorry about the problem.

Thanks,
-Bryan

Still no reply [from Stardust team] to my last post: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: Messages in Bottles ? http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1094&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=165 (a post which would help all searchers, not just me) While waiting, I'm...

Hi John, I think the update that I just posted goes toward answering some of your questions. But I'll try to answer what I can: (1) Well no, we're not trying to test the dusters. That the candidates do not look like the simulated tracks isn't too shocking really. We don't know the exact size and sha...

aumandg,

Sorry about the problem. We saw that problem while we were transitioning the website to Phase 2, but we fixed it before Phase 2 went live. Looks like we might have broken our fix. I've sent a message to our tech guys so that they can fix it again.

Thanks for the report.

-Bryan

Leah, I'm also wondering if you are encountering a problem with the fact that Mozilla browsers do not ask for confirmation of a click. If you click on a movie a mozilla browser will simply count the click and move on. If you accidentally double-click it will count as a click in the on-deck movie and...

Hi All, The numbers of regular dusters are definitely down to a few thousand. However, given the rate of new movies being uploaded and the dedication of those few thousand we are still in great shape with the project. It would always be nice to have more eyes looking through the focus movies, but we...