How did NASA bring comet dust to earth?
And what did it reveal?
The meteorites in the American Museum of Natural History fell to earth from a number of extra-terrestrial sources. Some were once bits of asteroids. One was once beneath the surface of an extra-solar planet that was shattered by a Super Nova.
But there is one type of space rock the museum doesn’t have: a piece of a comet.
And that’s because when comets strike the earth they vaporize, leaving nothing behind.
So museum staff were excited when NASA decided to send a space probe into a comet’s tail and bring back comet dust back to earth.
We will reveal how NASA did it, and what the comet dust revealed about the origin of life, in Museum Secrets: Inside the American Museum of Natural History.
We reveal how NASA did it, and what the comet dust revealed about the origin of life, in Museum Secrets: Inside the American Museum of Natural History.
Further Questions
In the broadcast version of this Museum Secret, we only had time to share a fraction of what the comet dust revealed. So we invite you to read all about it on NASA’s Stardust Mission Page.
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