AN ORANGE BALL OF FIRE

IT CAME WITH A ORANGE FIRE BALL

Stardust, with the capsule of comet dust landed back on earth. After 7 years, nearly 3 billion miles logged in space.
It was seen as an orange fireball by observers in Nevada and Utah.
The capsule hit the ground at 3; 10 AM at 10 mph bouncing 3 times before it came to rest on its side.
The $212 million dollar mission marked the first spacecraft to fly into deep space and bring back samples of a comet.
The Stardust mother ship will remain in orbit around the sun and may be use by NASA at a later date.
Comets are frozen bodies of ice and dust that formed 4.6 billion years ago. Studding these tiny samples could shed some light on our solar systems birth.
The Stardust was picked up by the US Air Force ad it will be sent to Johnson’s Space Center.