48 Quotes by Donald Brownlee

Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice. We've found samples from the coldest part of the solar system that have mineral grains formed under extremely high temperatures.

Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice.

It exceeds all expectations. It's a huge success. We can see lots of impacts. There are big ones, there are small ones.

It exceeds all expectations. It's a huge success.

It exceeded all of our grandest expectations. We should have more than 1 million particles larger than 1 micron in diameter.

We can tell the difference, absolutely, for something that formed in our own solar system, and something that formed around another star.

We can see lots of impacts. There are big ones, there are small ones. The big ones you can see from 10 feet away.

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust grains - before the solar system formed. We're using this comet as a library that picked up records of the formation of our solar system, and has been storing them far from the sun at very low temperatures for four and a half billion years.

We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a direct relationship to the particles we brought back.