
In search of stardust
Discovery
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The King of Dust
John has gone back to Norway with his bags of dust. I wish him luck at airport security while I sort through, following detailed instructions from the King of Dust himself. It's a matter of washing, skimming and drying. And I'm just left with a nice dirty, sludgy tea towel to dry out. So my dust has dried. It's the next morning, squirted to seven. I'm going to try and get some sorting in before work. Then I sieve, sort with a magnet and finally inspect it with a magnifying glass. Just so you appreciate the kind of scale here, I reckon I'm looking at a few thousand particles. He starts by mounting
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