Post by sherlew99 on May 19, 2017 21:11:01 GMT -6
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Meet the Photographer Hunting for Extraterrestrial Dust on Paris Rooftops
Daniel Oberhaus
May 19 2017, 7:00am
As detailed in a paper published last December in Geology, Genge and Larsen collected some 300 kilos of dust from rooftops in Paris, Berlin and Oslo for their project. Using magnets to separate the cosmic dust from the terrestrial, the pair managed to find some 500 micrometeorites in their dust collection.
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