December 29, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (December 29, 1999)

December 27, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (December 22, 1999)

December 17, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (December 17, 1999)

December 17, 1999

• Sunlight Keeps Star Dust at Bay (December 17, 1999)

December 10, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (December 10, 1999)

December 8, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (December 3, 1999)

November 24, 1999

• Comet Hale-Bopp May Have A Satellite (explorezone.com - November 23, 1999)

November 19, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (November 19, 1999)

November 18, 1999

• Fiery End For Dinosaurs? (BBC News - November 18, 1999)

November 15, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (November 12, 1999)

November 9, 1999

• Most Distant Solar System Object Detected (BBC News - November 9, 1999)

November 5, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (November 5, 1999)
• A Surprise November Meteor Shower? (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 5, 1999)

November 3, 1999

• Near-Live Leonid Watching System (NASA - November 1999)
• Leonids On The Moon (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 3, 1999)

November 1, 1999

• Creating the Model Comet (space.com - November 1, 1999)
• NASA Meteor Balloon Rises Again (Marshall Space Flight Center - November 1, 1999)
• Air Force Fears Satellite Damage During Upcoming Meteor Showers (Reuters - November 1, 1999)

October 29, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (October 29, 1999)

October 28, 1999

• 'Glowworms In Sky' Studied At Starfire Optical Range (Air Force News Service - October 26, 1999)
• A Dusty Ring May Be the Tell-Tale Mark of an Emerging Planetary System (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - October 20, 1999)

October 27, 1999

• Leonids In The Crystal Ball (Marshall Space Flight Center - October 27, 1999)

October 22, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (October 22, 1999)

October 15, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (October 15, 1999)

October 14, 1999

• Chemistry Of Comet Hale-Bopp May Offer Clues About Early Solar System (University of Massachusetts-Amherst - October 13, 1999)
• New Comet May Put on a Show Next Year (SpaceViews - October 13, 1999)

October 13, 1999

• No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact (NASA - October 13, 1999)

October 8, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (October 8, 1999)
• Comet And Asteroid Hunters' Discovery Streak Continues (Albuquerque Journal - October 6, 1999)

October 7, 1999

• World's Largest Impact Found In South Africa (SpaceDaily - October 5, 1999)
• Possible Pluto Debris Spotted (SpaceDaily - October 6, 1999)
• Puzzle Of Cometary Orbits Hints At Large Undiscovered Object (Royal Astronomical Society - October 7, 1999)

October 5, 1999

• Companion To Comet Grigg-Skjellerup Discovered Using Giotto Data? (ESA - September 28, 1999)

September 25, 1999

• Harvest Of The Heavens Starts With A Sludgeball On Earth (Sydney Morning Herald - September 24, 1999)

September 24, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (September 24, 1999)

September 19, 1999

• Forecast Calls for Exciting Leonids Meteor Shower (space.com - September 17, 1999)

September 17, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (September 17, 1999)

September 10, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (September 10, 1999)

September 9, 1999

• A Violent Blast Of Radiation Spawned The Planets (New Scientist - September 8, 1999)
• The House Of Comets (explorezone.com - September, 1999)

September 8, 1999

• Water Found In Second Meteorite (CNN - September 7, 1999)

September 3, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (September 3, 1999)

September 2, 1999

• Frequently Asked Questions about the STARDUST microchips have been added. Over 1 million names are on the microchips which are riding on the spacecraft.

August 31, 1999

• Fine Leonid Meteor Displays Predicted Through To 2002 (Royal Astronomical Society - August 30, 1999)

August 27, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (August 27, 1999)

August 26, 1999

• Water Of The Stars (space.com - August 26, 1999)

August 24, 1999

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Discovers its First Comet (Sloan Digital Sky Survey - August 13, 1999)

August 20, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (August 20, 1999)

August 18, 1999

• Earth Battered Through History By Comets (San Jose Mercury News - August 17, 1999)

August 13, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (August 13, 1999)

August 12, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (August 6, 1999)

August 11, 1999

• Build A Scale Model Of The STARDUST Spacecraft!

August 9, 1999

• Here Come The Perseids! (Marshall Space Flight Center - August 9, 1999)

August 6, 1999

• Diamonds Made of 'Stardust,' UMass Geoscientist Suggests (University Of Massachusetts Amherst - August 5, 1999)
• Perseids Live! Balloon Flight Planned (Marshall Space Flight Center - August 6, 1999)

August 2, 1999

• A link to the new Discovery Program home page has been added.

July 30, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (July 30, 1999)

July 26, 1999

At Age 92, Astronomer Fred Whipple Is Joining CONTOUR To Explore Three Comets In 2002 (Cornell University - July 26, 1999)

July 23, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (July 23, 1999)

July 16, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (July 16, 1999)
• Potential Hazard Of Earth-Asteroid Collisions To Be Discussed At Cornell Space Conference (Cornell University - July 14, 1999)
• The Leonid Meteor Outburst of 1997 (Marshall Space Flight Center - July 16, 1999)

July 15, 1999

• A link to the STARDUST Curation Team at Johnson Space Center has been added.

July 14, 1999

• A Deep Impact home page has been added to the Comet Missions section.

July 9, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (July 9, 1999)
• 'Deep Impact' To Excavate And Study A Comet's Nucleus Wins NASA Approval (University Of Maryland - July 7, 1999)

July 8, 1999

• JPL's New Deep Impact Comet Mission OK'd By NASA (JPL - July 7, 1999)
• 'Deep Impact' In Chesapeake Bay (USGS - July 6, 1999)

July 7, 1999

• NASA Selects Missions To Mercury And A Comet's Interior As Next Discovery Flights (NASA - July 7, 1999)

July 1, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (July 1, 1999)
• STARDUST Newsletter #1 (128kb, .pdf file)

June 28, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (June 25, 1999)
• Leonids On The Horizon (Marshall Space Flight Center - June 22, 1999)
• Return To Tunguska (BBC News - June 28, 1999)

June 23, 1999

• SOHO Glimpses Far Side Of The Sun, Looks At Comet Hale-Bopp's Shadow (European Space Agency - June 22, 1999)

June 17, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (June 17, 1999)
• Comet Hale-Bopp Fails Emission Tests But Reveals Comet Origin (Goddard Space Flight Center - June 16, 1999)
• Astronomer Helps Pinpoint Birth/History of Hale-Bopp (University Of North Dakota - June 16, 1999)

June 11, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (June 11, 1999)

June 10, 1999

• Ken Atkins Receives Special NASA Honor (JPL - June 10, 1999)
• Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Surrounded By An Impact-Generated Dust Cloud (Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics - June 2, 1999)
• Asteroid, Comet And Meteor Conference Set For July (UniSci - June 8, 1999)

June 4, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (June 4, 1999)

June 3, 1999

• Lunar Sodium Tail Discovered (Boston University - June 2, 1999)

May 28, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (May 28, 1999)

May 21, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (May 21, 1999)

May 19, 1999

• Leonid Conference Participants Ask: "Were We Lucky Last Year?" (Aerospace Corporation - May 16, 1999)

May 14, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (May 14, 1999)

May 10, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (May 10, 1999)

May 7, 1999

• Animations of NASA programs "Cool Comets" and "Awesome Asteroids" have been added.

May 4, 1999

• JPL Invites The World To Its Annual Open House (JPL - May 4, 1999)

May 3, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (May 3, 1999)

April 22, 1999

• Wanted: Earthlings To Share The Joys Of Our Solar System (JPL - April 21, 1999)

April 21, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (April 21, 1999)

April 20, 1999

• Solar System Ambassador Program - Announcement Of Opportunity

April 12, 1999

• Asteroid Named For STARDUST Comet Mission Designer (JPL - April 9, 1999)

April 9, 1999

• Transcript of the WebChat with Tom Duxbury on April 1 is now available.
• Tour the Boeing Delta II Launch Vehicle that STARDUST was launched on.

April 7, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Status (April 6, 1999)

April 2, 1999

• The trajectories of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander have been added to show the relative distance to the STARDUST spacecraft:
  • Where Is STARDUST Right Now?

March 29, 1999

• A WebChat is scheduled for April 1 with Tom Duxbury, STARDUST Mission Manager.

March 26, 1999

• Earth's Water Probably Didn't Come From Comets (Caltech - March 18, 1999)

March 22, 1999

• A new graphic of the STARDUST spacecraft have been added to the Where Is STARDUST Right Now? page.
• STARDUST Mission Status (March 22, 1999)

March 18, 1999

• Speed and total distance travelled information has been added for STARDUST:
  • Where Is STARDUST Right Now?

March 17, 1999

• STARDUST's first photo, showing the planet Mars, is now available.

March 15, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Status (JPL - March 15, 1999)

March 12, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (March 12, 1999)

March 11, 1999

• The STARDUST Teacher's Activity Guide is now online.
• Twenty Five Educators Selected For STARDUST Fellowship (Challenger Center - December 14, 1998)

March 9, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (March 5, 1999)

March 5, 1999

• Journey To Collect "Stardust" Begins (Lockheed Martin - February 7, 1999)
• STARDUST Mission Status (JPL - March 5, 1999)

March 4, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (February 26, 1999)

March 3, 1999

• A high-resolution photo of Comet Wild-2 has been added to the Photo Gallery.

February 26, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (February 19, 1999)

February 25, 1999

• Two more aerogel photos (brick & hand) have been added to the Photo Gallery.

February 22, 1999

• STARDUST Now On Its Wild(-2) Ride (JPL - February 19, 1999)
• 50 Ninth-Graders Learn About STARDUST And Supernovas (JPL - February 19, 1999)

February 21, 1999

• Additional STARDUST Launch Photos have been added.

February 20, 1999

• Comets, Like Cars, Leave Carbon Monoxide In Their Wake (Arizona State University - February 18, 1999)

February 18, 1999

• New Photos Of The Launch Tower Rollback have been added.

February 17, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (February 12, 1999)

February 16, 1999

• Additional STARDUST Launch Animations have been added.

February 12, 1999

• STARDUST Launch Animations are now available.
• Where Is STARDUST Right Now?. Use this page for STARDUST's current position, and track its progress to Comet Wild-2.

February 11, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Status (JPL - February 11, 1999)

February 10, 1999

Aerogel Rides Again (Marshall Space Flight Center - February 5, 1999)

February 8, 1999

• Boeing Delta 2 launches NASA's STARDUST Spacecraft (Boeing - February 7, 1999)
• STARDUST Launch Photos are now available.
• More STARDUST Launch Photos

February 7, 1999

• STARDUST Successfully Launched! (JPL - February 7, 1999)

February 6, 1999

• The STARDUST launch has been rescheduled to February 7.

February 5, 1999

• A mirror site for the STARDUST home page is now available: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/stardust
• The Jason Project will be hosting a live RealVideo broadcast of tomorrow's launch.
• Boeing Delta II To Launch NASA's STARDUST Spacecraft (Boeing - February 2, 1999)

February 4, 1999

• New Photos Of The Fairings Installation Around THe STARDUST Spacecraft have been added.

February 3, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Set To Bring Back A Piece Of A Comet (JPL - February 3, 1999)
• University Of Kent On A Wild Comet Chase (Royal Astronomy Society - Februay 2, 1999)
• Chicago Instrument To Get Close Look At Comet During STARDUST Mission (University Of Chicago - February 2, 1999)

February 2, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (January 29, 1999)
• UW Astronomy Professor's Stardust Quest Set For Launch On Feb 6 (University Of Washington - February 1, 1999)
• A new WebCam has been added showing the STARDUST Operations Room At JPL
• The STARDUST launch times have been tweaked to take into account the final spacecraft weight.

January 29, 1999

• Launch Sequence Diagrams and a Launch Sequence Description have been added to the STARDUST Launch home page.
• STARDUST Scheduled For Launch On Delta II Rocket On Feb 6 (Kennedy Space Center - January 29, 1999).

January 28, 1999

• New Photos Of The STARDUST Spacecraft Being Prepared For Move To Launch Pad 17A have been added.
• New Photos Of The STARDUST Spacecraft Arriving At Launch Pad 17A have been added.
• A high-resolution STARDUST Mission Overview graphic has been added to the STARDUST Photo Gallery

January 27, 1999

• New Photos Of The Mating Of STARDUST Spacecraft With 3rd Stage Of Delta II Rocket have been added.
• New Photos Of The Mounting Of Video Camera On The 2nd Stage Rocket have been added.

January 26, 1999

• New Photos Of The STARDUST Spacecraft have been added.

January 25, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (January 22, 1999)

January 19, 1999

• STARDUST Status Report (January 15, 1999)

January 15, 1999

• New Photos of the 2nd Stage of the Delta II Rocket Arriving At Launch Pad 17A have been added.

January 14, 1999

• The STARDUST Press Kit is now available.

January 13, 1999

• Stardust Readies For February Launch (JPL - January 8, 1999)
• STARDUST Status Report (January 8, 1999)
• New Photos Of STARDUST Undergoing Lighting Tests have been added.

January 10, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Set To Bring Back A Piece Of A Comet (JPL - January 10, 1999)
• New Photos of the Final Solid Rocket Booster Arriving At Launch Pad 17A have been added.

January 8, 1999

• New Photos of the Solid Rocket Boosters Arriving At Launch Pad 17A have been added.

January 7, 1999

• STARDUST Mission Prelaunch Science Briefing Scheduled For January 13 (NASA - January 7, 1999)
• Two additional WebCams have been added to show additional views of the STARDUST spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center:
  • WebCam #3
  • WebCam #4

January 6, 1999

• New Photos of the Delta II First Stage Rocket Arriving At Launch Pad 17A have been added.

January 5, 1999

• STARDUST Launch Page is now available.

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