_/ Alan Harding wrote \_

Sounds interesting. What's it about?

From the first e-mail I recieved about it:

In January 2004, the Stardust spacecraft flew through the coma of comet
Wild2 and captured thousands of cometary dust grains in special aerogel
collectors. Two years later, in January 2006, Stardust will return these
dust grains --- the first sample return from a solid solar-system body
beyond the Moon --- to Earth. But Stardust carries an equally important
payload on the opposite side of the cometary collector: the first
samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collected. As well as
being the first mission to return samples from a comet, Stardust is the
first sample return mission from the Galaxy. But finding the incredibly
tiny interstellar dust impacts in the Stardust Interstellar Dust
Collector (SIDC) will be extremely difficult. We are seeking qualified
people to help us to search for these tiny samples of matter from the
galaxy. Volunteers are critical to the success of this project. Please
help us find the first samples of contemporary Stardust ever collected.