Primordial comet dust to drop to Earth in January (Reuters)
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The spaceship Stardust is pictured in this artist's rendering. A sample of comet dust, collected by the Stardust with what looks a bit like a big tennis racket (top-left), is scheduled to parachute down to earth next month, NASA scientists said on December 21, 2005. The spaceship is coming to the end of its seven-year, 2.9 billion mile (4.8 billion km) round-trip mission to fly by comet Wild 2, catching dust that could give astronomers clues about how the planets formed some 4.5 billion years ago. NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/NASA/Handout
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