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January 31, 2008

Universe's History Written in Comet Dust

A quarter of a billionth of a gram... that's the size of the comet dust sample University of Minnesota physicist Robert Pepin analyzed when NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned from its mission around Mars. But the potential of what he discovered was not nearly as small.

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