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Letter "D" » Don Brownlee Quotes
«We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«You can't see them with the unaided eye (but) with the aided eye (through a microscope) you can see everything. A little particle blown up to high magnification is like working on an entire state! It's amazing.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«We were jumping up and down ? we were totally overwhelmed by the ability to see this so quickly and so straightforwardly. We were the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust in hand.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«We have a crew onboard of over a million people -- their names are etched in a little silicon chip. As an astrobiology-type person, I'm intrigued by the thought that those names and that spacecraft will far outlive the Earth. When the Sun becomes a red giant and scorches the Earth, that spacecraft and those names will still be floating around the galaxy somewhere.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«We'll be able to say some things almost instantly. One of the big questions is do comets contain minerals that contain water, called hydrated silicates and under an electron microscope you can identify those practically instantly.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«The real exciting thing will be opening the canister and seeing what the comet delivered to us.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«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.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachment to this thing and we should all feel a strong attachment to it because the fact is all the atoms in our bodies -- the carbon atoms and the oxygen, nitrogen, potassium and calcium and so forth -- all those atoms were in stardust rings ... before the solar system formed.»
Author: Don Brownlee
«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.»
Author: Don Brownlee
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