Modeling of the light scattering properties of cometary dust using fractal aggregates.
Scientists will be examining radioed data to determine what the craft learned about the dynamics and chemistry of cometary dust and how much was collected.
Would you have us sell cometary dust?
He is also studying the cometary dust and contemporary interstellar dust returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft in 2006.
(Hayabusa returned microscopic grains of asteroid material in 2010, and Stardust returned cometary dust in 2006.)
An occasional hydrogen atom leaves; a pitter-patter of cometary dust arrives.
Sisko sat back in his command chair, listening to the distant whisper of cometary dust vaporizing off the shields.
Speed is an indicator of origin, as cometary dust travels faster than the human variety - about 25,000 miles an hour.
Other primal matter falls to Earth in the form of rocky meteorites or as a steady rain of cosmic and cometary dust.
In 2005 it was also found in cometary dust returned by the Stardust probe.