Geminid meteor shower best tonight to morning

Tonight and tomorrow (THursday morning) is the Gemind meteori shower and the best chance to see it. I have been watching meteor showers since I was a little kid and tonight is one of the best ones to watch.

The meteors will stream out in all directions from the top of the constellation Gemini which is the North of Orion further South.

You may be able to see starting 9pm Earthgrazers. At that time the constellation and the radiant (location in the sky where the meteors seem to stream out of) is low. Sometime meteors streak through the outer parts of the atmosphere and skip through. From the ground they are usually bright, colorful and very long . I saw one a could years ago and it came up from East and looked like an orange sparking firecraker. It was great.

The meteors are usually bright, colorful and sometimes leave dusty trails called "trains."

It is one of the best meteor showers but because it usually in cold weather people don't go out to look as much as in August when the Perseids take place. But the Orionids in October (which I did not try to watch) was unexpectedly good and observers saw many more meteors then average.The Leonids in November that I watched two nights, were not impressive in numbers but I saw one real imressive yellow fireball that sticks in my mind. Others eventhough many were faint , some had trains.

What is interesting is this strong meteor shower was not seen until 1862 which is very unusual. Astronomers searching for a related comet found an object which was called 3200 Phaethon. It's characteristcs appear more like an asteroid as there is no tail like a comet. This object gets close to the Sun so maybe that produced some of the larger particles which produce these many bright meteors as they burn up. Another theory is that this object collided with some asteroid and is trailing many rocky bigger particles

While information on the internet , CNN etc says you might see 1 or 2 per minute , that is during the earlier morning hours and you need to be in a dark sky place. You can't see the fainter ones in the light polluted skies of the cities and bigger towns. Plus you need unobstructed view of the constellation Gemini as it rises from the East after 9 pm. Many meteors, if you there are trees where live, may go behind the trees . Also this does not include the fainter meteors that you can't see if you are just looking near your house and not in a dark sky location.

The bright ones are the ones to remember but sometimes even the fainter ones will leave those trains that will linger and sometime twist in the upper atmospheric winds.

Good luck and let me know if you see any.
The weather will be clear and relatively warm tonight and tomorrow morning (here in Kansas) so try it.

More information at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/12dec_geminids.htm

http://www.earthsky.org/article/50807/look-ahead-to-geminid-meteors-on-december-13


Dr.Eric Flescher

Astronaut Don Pettit has just landed in the meteorite-rich ice fieldhttp://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs

I collect meteorites but from ebay and watch meteor showers. But collecting meteorites in Antarctica when they are in pristine condition well that would be something else indeed.

Follow along as Don shares his experience

Dr. Eric Flescher
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NASA Science News for December 11, 2006

Astronaut Don Pettit has just landed in the meteorite-rich ice fields of Antarctica where he plans to launch a series of edgy and entertaining science experiments to be shared with the general public. Call them "Saturday Morning Science--on Ice."

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Comet Findings Raise Fiery Mystery

Comets are called "glittering tourists of the solar system. " But are these "snowballs of ice and gravel "only that or is there more to these mysterious objects? New finds raise some interesting ideas .

Comet Findings Raise Fiery Mystery

by Howard Berkes
"But scientists studying comet dust from the Stardust probe found minerals formed by intense heat, suggesting the minerals came from the neighborhood of the sun itself. That's the earliest discovery in what's expected to be decades of study."
and
"How did hot minerals from the blistering core get to the frigid outer reaches? Or did the minerals come from other stars? And maybe comets aren't quite what we thought, if those icy bodies contain minerals forged by fire."
more at the following website including a picture of the Wild 2 comet in space (very cool)
Wild 2, Portrait of a Comet by Meagan White (on the same website)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5260829

more at Stardust mission Home webpage

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/main/index.html

Dr. Eric Flescher, Olathe, KS(dreric1kansas@aol.com)

Planetary Conjunction now Geminids coming up

Astronomy : Planetary Conjunction and the Geminid Meteor shower

Many of the reports fail to say that this conjunction (Dec 8-11) is real difficult to observe in the East. The planetary conjunction of Mercury, Mars and Jupiter (see spaceweather.com) is difficult to see and it is before sunrise. I would not bother unless you look right before sunrise and have binoculars ( reports fail to say thistoo but you have to be careful with the Sun coming up). Still you might want to try. I went out to early eventhough I knew where to look and had good horizon but could not see any of them. I might try ....?

The November Leonids were a bust to most. Many did not see what was supposed to be many meteors that were to fall. However it was the weekend but cold. I was out two nights and while I did not see many, there was one -3 yellow nice fireball that made the wait worthwhile. Most others were faint but some has trains ( dusty trails that sometimes twist in the upper atmosphere winds) that persisted for usually 0.5 second.
The Geminids are usually a real good meteor shower with bright meteors that last at least 0.5 seconds and sometime have trains. I have had better luck with this shower compared to the famous Perseids in August.

But this time it is in week time. However Gemini rise in the evening instead of the morning so you can possibly spot some earthgrazers earlier in the evening (see more below). You can watch the Geminids all night but mid morning is the best to sunrise.

And remember to dress warmly out there if you go


Week-Long Meteor Shower to Dazzle

By Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
posted: 08 December 2006

Such meteors are so distinctive because they follow long paths nearly parallel to our atmosphere. By around 9 p.m., Gemini will have climbed more than one-third of the way up from the horizon. Meteor sightings should begin to increase noticeably thereafter. By around 2 a.m., Gemini will stand high overhead.

Geminids stand apart from the other meteor showers in that they seem to have been spawned not by a comet
but by 3200 Phaeton, an Earth-crossing asteroid. Then again, the Geminids may be comet debris after all, for some astronomers consider Phaeton to really be the dead nucleus of a burned-out comet that somehow got trapped into an unusually tight orbit.
more
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/061208_night_sky.html

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Life-long interest in meteorites

Sue and I joke (well I joke she does not think it is such a joke) about when we were in Casco Canyon , (Utah I forget?). It was after the Sun set and it was getting darker by the minute. I urged her that we should get going as I did not want to get stuck here in the dark. She insists on keeping on looking for arrowhead stones. While she is doing her thing, I take a picture of her bending over trying to find one (I love this picture :) ) . She insists to this day that it is a genuine arrowhead as it looks like ones we saw at a shop later that night or the morning. We can debate about her stone but finally someone ends the debate about a stone a lady found years ago.
read below with more.
“I first picked it up because I noticed the unusual shape like an arrowhead, but when I held it I felt how dense it was,” Johnson said. “When I was a little girl of about eight in The Netherlands, I remember my father telling me that you will always know a meteorite because it is heavy for its size. I always kept it and showed it to people, saying that I had found something unusual.”

Life-long interest in meteorites
pays off for B.C. woman
31 July 2006
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/PMSearch/PMSearch_johnson.html


The Pararie Meteor Search
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/PMSearch/
Includes information below
July 31, 2006 - BC woman finds iron meteorite near Prince Rupert
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/PMSearch/PMSearch_johnson.html
December 15, 2005: A record year for meteorite recovery in Canada
September 19, 2005: Alberta’s Centennial meteorite discovered near Edmonton
July 14, 2005: Manitoba meteorite hunter scores again
June 10, 2004: Alberta farmer finds Canada’s newest meteorite: Belly River Buttes
April 20, 2004: Bernic Lake - another new meteorite from Manitoba

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS

Evidence of water resurface on Mars

NASA. Evidence of water resurface on Mars
USAToday 12/7/06

Mysterious gullies could be recent flow
by Dan Vegano USA Today

This article has insightly information about the mysterious gullies and evidence that water flowed on Mars very recently.There are still a lot of naysayers but these observations are pretty interesting. They show new crater in the last few years and water like deposits.

(1) New satellite iages show that new gullies (bright patches carved into flowing shapes in the Martian dust) have appeared within two craters
(2) Ken Edgett speaking at NASA with information in the journal Science. In January 2004 image he spotted a crater that hadn't appeared in earlier images (started taking in 1999).
(3) 20 new crarters were spotted in all . This establisged the an estimated rate of about 12 small comet or meteors impact a year on Mars.
(4) The search also found the newer dried out gullies in two craters , both located in middle latitude, between the frozen poles and dry equater (that had higher temperatures).
(5) The gullies likely carried "5 to 10 swimming pools worth of brinywater " down the 20 -30 degree slopes of the craters , Edgett said.
(6) This has changed the thinking about Mars says PLanetary scientist Phil Christensen of Arizona State U .
(7) He added vthat planetary scientists are adebating whether water hides in aquifers , frozen ice or show packs on Mars.
(8) Edgett suggests that the gullies result from groundwater percolating through cracks in the Martian rock around the craters.
(9) Stephen Clifford of the LUnar PLanetary Institutediagresses and says the cold , dry terrain makes it difficult to understand how water could possibly exist close to the surface, hje says.
(10) More spacecraft observation might yield more definitive data.
(11) The team's cratering estimates are in doubt too.Would these be hazardous to future space missions? Probably yes it was said.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061206-mars-water.htmlhref="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061206-mars-water.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061206-mars-water.html

More information about Tagish meteorite

More information about Tagish meteorite

Emma Bullock, a postgraduate student in the department, is working on the composition of the meteorite for her thesis.

"It's unlike any other meteorite we've ever seen so it possibly belongs in a group all of its own," she says.

"There are [compounds containing the element sulphur] in this meteorite that aren't found on Earth and there are also some very unusual shapes of sulphide.

"It's got some other very interesting features," she adds. "It's been altered by water but not really by heat so that's affected some of the minerals."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2144150.stm<

additional information says more specifically that
(from Kathleen McBride)
The exterior of 05112 is yellow brown with fractures; 05124 has patches of purplish black fusion crust. The interiors are brown and black with light colored inclusions.

The Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy and Emma Bullock
The sections consist of a few small chondrules (up to 0.5 mm), mineral grains and CAIs set in a black matrix; rare metal and sulfide grains are present.
Olivine compositions are Fa1-20. The matrix consists pre-dominantly of an Fe-rich serpentine.

Thee research says instead of the sample being unknown the meteorites are type: CM2
chondrites

http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/amn/amnsep06/petdesmil05112.cfm

latest about Mars and the quest to find water on Mars and life

First scientists thought we might have water on Mars because of the illusion of the green canals. Then thought when the spacecrafts took pictures there was no much hope.
This continued with the Viking Landers.
Then were tantilizing clues to gully like rivers, possible water underneath in caves and possible evidence or minerals and layering with the two Mars Rovers.

now the latest about Mars and the quest to find water on Mars and life


WATER MAY BE SPURTING ON MARS
-----------------------------
Mars Global Surveyor photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in
two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them
sometime during the past seven years. Liquid water, as opposed to the
water ice and water vapor known to exist at Mars, is considered necessary
for life. The new findings heighten intrigue about the potential for
microbial life on Mars.



http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0612/06mgs/

The monster with the great set of jaws and more meteorite stuff

The monster with the great set of jaws
Dunkleosteus terrelli
see
Snap!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05observ.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
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also more about meteorites information further down on the page

Carbaneous chondrite meteorites haave carbon bearing materials. Carbon based materials are the building blocks of life on Earth. So it stands to reason, carbon based material may have caused curious possibilities in early earth bombardmends.

Organic meteorites

Similar globules were first noticed in a meteorite in 1961 and have since been seen in a few other carbonaceous chondrites. But until now there has been no way to adequately analyze them.
The NASA scientists used a mass spectrometer with a tiny probe and found that the globules contained carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen. Isotopic analysis of the nitrogen and hydrogen determined that the globules had probably formed at temperatures approaching absolute zero.
That finding, the researchers say, means that the globules probably were created in the outer reaches of the developing solar system or in the molecular cloud that became the Sun. The researchers suggest that if, as is thought, Earth was bombarded by these kinds of meteorites early in its history, such globules may have helped “seed” the planet with organic compounds that led to life.

caving stuff

Argentina's Caves Threatened by Mining, Tourism, Experts Say
Kelly Hearn in Buenos Aires
for National Geographic News
December 1, 2006

Mining and tourism threaten Argentina's cave systems, say critics, who worry that the activities are destroying fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061201-caves-argentina.html
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• Photo in the News: Giant Crystal-Filled Cave Discovered in California (September 26, 2006)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-cave-california.html<

• Prehistoric Cave Discovered; 8 New Species Thrive Inside (June 2, 2006)
Mati Milstein in Ramle, Israel
for National Geographic News
June 2, 2006

Quarry workers digging recently in central Israel broke through bedrock and stumbled into an entirely new and unique ecosystem, scientists announced Wednesday. The cavern had been sealed off from the outside world for millions of years.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060602-israel-cave.html<
•
National Geographic Magazine: "Inside Chiquibul: Central America's Longest Cave"


http://www.nationalgeographic.com/chiquibul/intro.html

Amber , that pretty yellow mineral

Amber , that pretty yellow mineral that comes from resin/ sap from ancient trees that solidifies as a fossil, hold interesting evidence of ancient life.

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1796778.htm?ancient

Ancient Roman device was an ancient clock like device

Amazing read

Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006

Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.

"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS

Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine

Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006

Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.

"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001

rest of story A star fell on Sylacauga 1954

Reading about meteors and meteorites when I was younger, I knew about this story as it was one of the only ones if not the only one that at that time about a human being being struck by a meteorite. But I did not know the rest of the story.
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.

A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives

By M.J. Ellington
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml

If all goes well, research rocket invention will pierce tornado

Storm chaser Brian Waldrop

Wednesday, 11/29/06 Storm chaser aims for twister's heart
If all goes well, research rocket invention will pierce tornado

By MITCHELL KLINE
Staff Writer
http://www.fairviewobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/611290422/1321/MTCN06

Meteorite may hold clues to life

I was very intrigued when I learned about the French Meteorite Oreguil which landed in the 1800's and was said to have organic materials in it. This was in the 1960s and might meteorite and meteor interests soared.Since that I have observed countless meteor showers, fireballs, some bolides (fireballs with meteoric booms). Then lately I started collecting more meteorites but this Tagish one that I heard about in 2003 and now have a small piece is the exception in many ways.


The Tagish Meteorite exploded in Canada and reigned down very old caronaceous chondrites meteorites on the Canadian Yukon.It was most interesting that no one really hunted for the meteorites until later but finally they were found on the ice of the Tagish Lake and around the lake.

Lately there is now much more about these pristine meteorites


Meteorite may hold clues to life

“This may be the cleanest meteorite we have.
The meteor opens a window into the kind of material from which the solar system was formed.
The meteorite is unusually rich in carbon molecules that have formed into hollow bubbles so tiny that a trillion of them would weigh less than a grape.
That’s important for two reasons: all living things are built from carbon compounds and all living things need to arrange those compounds into membranes that protect what’s inside the organism from what’s outside."
“Astrobiologists consider forming a membrane to be one of the most important and difficult steps in forming the first cells,” said Messenger.
“These globules are premade membrane structures. They may have nothing to do with life per se, but they’re organic-rich, they’re about the right size and they’re hollow.”

(nice photo of one of the bigger meteorites in this article website below)

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1164970952693&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home">http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1164970952693&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home


SCIENCE NEWS
December 01, 2006
Ancient Meteorites from Outer Solar System May Have Provided Raw Materials for Life
Meteorite that fell in Canada's Tagish Lake contains organic compounds from a time before planets formed

Finally

"We're sure that these [globules] are not alive," Messenger remarks. "But they may have been important ingredients for the first life-forms.
Like the Tagish Lake meteorite globules, comet particles are rich in carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The NASA scientists are currently analyzing particle samples collected by the comet-chasing Stardust Mission to determine if organic globules were a common form of prebiotic organic matter present throughout the early solar system."

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=3B156AB3-E7F2-99DF-3954A06521CC6FBD>



also

http://evomech1.blogspot.com/2006/12/nasa-scientists-find-primordial.html

and



and

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/01/meteorite_spa.html?category=earth&guid=20061201150000

Saturn's Moon Iapetus shows bulding Waistline

Saturn and the moons are always showing new finds

Saturn's Moon Iapetus shows bulding Waistline



http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=714&flash=1

Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun, Study Says

Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun, Study Says
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
November 30, 2006

But the microscopic organic globules that make up about one-tenth of one percent of the object appear to be far older.
In a study appearing in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, Messenger and colleagues report that isotopic anomalies in the globules suggest that they formed in very cold conditions—near absolute zero.
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.
"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."

"It's the lowest density meteorite that's ever been studied," said Peter Brown, a meteor expert and professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.


"We mean that the material in the meteorite has been processed the least since it was formed. The material we see today is arguably the most representative of the material that first went into making up the solar system."
The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin.

more
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html

even more
Building Blocks of Life Found in Two Meteorites
Bijal P. Trivedi
National Geographic Today
December 19, 2001


The sugar and sugar-like molecules, collectively called polyols, were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Murchison, Australia, in 1969 and the Murray meteor that fell in Kentucky in 1950—two meteorites that are rich in carbon.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1219_TVsugarmeteors.html

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New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds
By Eric Hand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/30/2006
Geologists have long known that the fossil record suddenly dies off 65 million years ago between two geological periods: the Cretaceous and the Paleogene.

Evidence for a doomsday rock from outer space built when, around the globe, geologists found a layer of clay right at the boundary of those periods. The clay contained iridium, a rare substance on Earth but common in meteorites.
New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds


http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/309881DECE8825D78625723600175A80?OpenDocument

Space experiments and spinoffs on Earth

There are many who believe the space station and the space program are a waste of money. Well if it wasn't for the spinoffs from the space programs we would not have
(1) Medical equipment for newborn babies and much more
(2) space age plastics and material for cars, insulation etc
(3) inventions like microwave, computers and more
(4) satellites and equipment to watch bad weather
and much much more

just type in NASA spinoffs on google and read more as well as blow

Dr.Eric



Space Station Science Overdrive

By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 28 November 2006

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061128_space_science.html

Saturn's very tiny moon

Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis makes waves as it orbits the Ringed Planet. Even though it's only 7 km (4.3 miles) across, the moon's gravity draws material along the edges of the Keeler gap, creating the serrated knife edge you see. Cassini took this photo on Ocrober 27, 2006 when it was approximately 325,000 kilometers (202,000 miles) from Daphnis.

Gamma rays and black holes

Scientists do not know what causes massive explosions that cause huge amount of gamma rays to be released. Scientists keep finding more evidence and ideas.

Astronomers have discovered a gamma ray source in the sky that acts like a natural clock. The object is called LS 5039, and consists of a massive blue star orbiting an unknown object - possibly a black hole. The two objects orbit each other closely, completing an orbit every four days. With each orbit, the black hole flies through the blue star's stellar wind, and accelerates particles to gamma ray levels. This is the first time a source of gamma rays has been discovered with such a regular schedule.

Read the full story..
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/11/28/set-your-clock-with-gamma-rays/

Fireball in Australia alarms people

Fireball in Australia alarms people

Some people come them comets, some meteorites but what they really are are METEORS or when are also bright and create sound BOLIDES

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/fiery_green_intruder_from_spac.php

mars meteorite info

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/

also many links below for good reading
:)

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS

new tagish canada meteorite info

new tagish meteorite info

I have a small samples from the famous recent find

MPORTANT NEWS - MAY 14TH 2006
Just this week there has been an important scientific announcement concerning Tagish lake and other carbonaceous chondrites.
They have discovered that - much like the samples recovered by the recent cometary sample expeditions, these meteorites contain interstellar grains. These are incredibly exciting particles as they were created at the VERY start of the Solar System.
This not only makes this sample far more important, scientifically - it may well shoot the commercial value through the roof!
Click this link for the full story


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4973696.stm