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Cosmic Dust

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Importance of Micrometeorites

Dr. Gensch: I tend to get meteorite emails asking me to tell them if they have a meteorite or not. There's quite a large number of what we call meteor wrongs that get sent in, he says. How valuable have these samples of dust been in allowing us to tell the story of our solar system? "It reminds you of those old TV art shows, I'm sorry, but we cannot return your dust"

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