61 Quotes by Don Brownlee

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    These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - the carbon atoms, the oxygen, the nitrogen, potassium, calcium and so forth - all of those atoms were in stardust grains like those coming out of the comet now before the solar system formed.

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    This is a history project. We are going to the edge of the solar system, collecting the original building blocks of the planets and bringing them back to our labs.

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    The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best preserved samples of the formation of our solar system and they are preserved because they formed these comet bodies beyond the major planets out beyond Neptune.

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    The capsule's return is probably the simplest of all the things Stardust has done and has the least risk. Nonetheless, it has to work.

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