8 Quotes by Don Burnett

Four and a half billion years ago, all of the matter of the solar system, including us, was part of a giant molecular cloud. Genesis is providing the chemical composition of that solar nebula. ...The material is still stored for us in the surface of the sun.

What we've been missing is a starting point. These samples allow precise measurements of the abundance of elements and isotopes in the sun.

The really fun part of it is discovering actual answers about what solar composition is.

We expected to have 250 samples. Now, we have 15,000 pieces to work with.

We are going to capture this re-entry capsule out of the air in a helicopter snatch. It will be very exciting thing to see.

Once it gets there it opens up two covers and deploys high purity materials which are then used to collect the solar wind one atom at a time.

In principle, we might be able to do everything we started out to do.

The chemical and isotopic composition of the sun is the starting composition from which all planets formed.