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Spacecraft preparing to pounce on comet dust.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Glennda Chui
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ It's flown 2.3 billion miles in search of its prey: less than a thimbleful of microscopic particles shed by a comet, the most primitive stuff known in the solar system.
Friday, NASA's Stardust spacecraft will pounce.
The spacecraft will zip within 200 miles of Comet Wild 2 and extend a robotic arm to collect comet dust in a trap so light and airy, it looks like solid smoke.
The dust, by the way, will slam into the collector at six times the speed of a rifle bullet.
It'll all be over in eight minutes. Then, if things go well, Stardust will head for home and a 2006 landing in the Utah ...
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