[meteorite-list] Stardust - aerogel looking great

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jan 18 01:31:22 2006
Message-ID: <200601180629.k0I6Tfi24252_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Hi,

I'm at Houston this week. The Stardust return capsule arrived at Johnson Space Center today.
The canister was opened up, and the aerogel collector grid was extracted. The aerogel
was closely inspected and photographed. I was in the clearnroom when the cometary grid
was separated from the interplanetary particle grid. The scientists are ecstatic.
More details will be presented in the JSC press release tomorrow.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 18 Jan 2006 01:29:40 AM PST