Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors

You can be part of history! Use your computer to help...

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml
BERKELEY – Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating from stars hundreds of thousands of light years away.

In a new project called Stardust@home, University of California, Berkeley, researchers will invite Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft and due to return to Earth in January 2006.

Go here to take part! Stardust@Home Project Link

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Looks pretty cool. Since I'm going on the road I may check into this once I get a laptop.