{"id":244,"date":"2006-01-10T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-01-10T15:18:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T23:18:51","slug":"stardust-to-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/01\/10\/stardust-to-return-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardust to Return to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NASA&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/stardust\/main\/index.html\">Stardust<\/a> capsule is scheduled to streak across western skies over a path from Crescent City, California,  Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada to its touchdown point in western Utah. The probe will return minute particles collected during it&#8217;s journey in space. <\/p>\n<p>One of my daily visits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> had this information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>FIREBALL ALERT<\/strong>: On Sunday morning, Jan. 15th, between 1:56 and 1:59 a.m. PST, a brilliant fireball will streak over northern California and Nevada. It&#8217;s NASA&#8217;s Stardust capsule, returning to Earth with samples of dust from Comet Wild 2. The best observing sites are near Carlin and Elko, Nevada, where the man-made meteor is expected to shine as much as 60 times brighter than Venus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0601\/stardust.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>The flight path of the Stardust capsule<\/em><\/div>\n<p>The fireball might be widely visible from parts of Oregon, Idaho and Utah as well as California and Nevada: observing tips. NASA is interested in videos and photos of the re-entry, which could help researchers learn more about, e.g., the physics of heat shields. Got data? <a href=\"http:\/\/reentry.arc.nasa.gov\/registrationobservations.html\">Send it here<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the spacecraft returns, volunteers will analyze the micrographs by looking for &#8220;needles&#8221; in &#8220;haystacks&#8221; &#8211; minute particles, few and far between &#8211; from electronic images distributed for analysis, similar to the Search for Extra Terrestrial Institute&#8217;s distributed processing of SETI data. You can volunteer and maybe be part of the team at  <a href=\"http:\/\/stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/\">Stardust@Home<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Stardust capsule is scheduled to streak across western skies over a path from Crescent City, California, Winnemucca and Elko, Nevada to its touchdown point in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-cyberspace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}