Stardust@home

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Yup, NASA's Stardust probe is home.  And now NASA wants volunteers to visually scan for interstellar dust impacts in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector's aerogel collection medium.  They estimate that the SIDC aerogel, about a tenth of a square meter in size, should have captured around 45 interstellar dust grains; but they also estimate it would take twenty years of continuous scanning to locate them all themselves.  Find a particle, and you get your name as co-author on any paper from Stardust@Home announcing the discovery of that particle.

The first image data is expected to be available for scanning March 1.

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