Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Western U.S. to get comet capsule light show

When a NASA capsule hauling comet and interstellar dust plummets through the Earth's atmosphere this weekend, residents in large sweeps of the West will witness a cosmic spectacle.

During the Stardust capsule's blazing re-entry at 1:57 a.m. PST Sunday, it will travel at 29,000 mph, making it the fastest man-made object to return to Earth.

The 100-pound cargo will arc over Northern California toward Utah's Dugway Proving Ground, a remote Army base southwest of Salt Lake City.


Forget that weird red dust -- these space-germs mean business! ;-)

1 comment:

Mac said...

I found out about the distributed particle-detection effort last night. It's probably a much better bet than SETI@home.