Donald Brownlee Quotes

Its cargo was an ancient, cosmic treasure from the very edge of the solar system ? a treasure that formed when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. - Donald Brownlee

It is quite exciting to find these things at the edge of the solar system. - Donald Brownlee

It exceeds all expectations. It's a huge success. We can see lots of impacts. There are big ones, there are small ones. - Donald Brownlee

It exceeded all of our grandest expectations. We should have more than 1 million particles larger than 1 micron in diameter. - Donald Brownlee

Inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the edge of the solar system that truly contains star dust. - Donald Brownlee

In the coldest part of the solar system, we've found samples that have formed at extremely high temperatures. When these minerals formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot grains. - Donald Brownlee

I'm confident that the particles will be the most primitive stuff we've ever had on Earth. - Donald Brownlee

If it was formed in our solar system, then it had to be transported from the hottest regions to the coolest. - Donald Brownlee

I fully expect that textbooks in the future will have a lot of information about the formation of the solar system from these samples that landed this morning in Utah. - Donald Brownlee

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