Back when Professor Don Brownlee was competing to get the NASA grant (there was a competition among some 7 different projects for a cheap (~$200 million including rocket) space mission) for Stardust, I was actually in his class at UW, Astro 321, which was basically covering orbits, planets, and interplanetary and interstellar crap. Later I worked for him, grading his papers. Now he's one of the big names in Astrobiology, and has a couple books out on it. Really nice guy, too. Pretty cool to be in the vicinity when someone gets their spaceship idea green-lighted by NASA, so I've been paying particular attention to this one, and I'm glad the flight part ended well.
Take note that scanning the aerogel for the captured particles (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml) will be taken on by BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/), Berkeley's distributed-computing project that's currently supporting SETI@HOME and several similar projects; so if you want to use your PC^H^Hpersonal computer's spare cycles to participate, then install BOINC and keep an eye out for the start of the project, which will follow the scan of the aerogel containers. With BOINC you can split your computer's time among several projects in proportions of your own choosing.
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Date: 2006-01-15 08:28 pm (UTC)Take note that scanning the aerogel for the captured particles (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml) will be taken on by BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/), Berkeley's distributed-computing project that's currently supporting SETI@HOME and several similar projects; so if you want to use your PC^H^Hpersonal computer's spare cycles to participate, then install BOINC and keep an eye out for the start of the project, which will follow the scan of the aerogel containers. With BOINC you can split your computer's time among several projects in proportions of your own choosing.