Don Brownlee Quotes

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.

- Don Brownlee

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We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago. We believe that the particles have a lot of information stored in them. - Don Brownlee

The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best preserved samples of the formation of our solar system and they are preserved because they formed these comet bodies beyond the major planets out beyond Neptune. - Don Brownlee

We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion years ago. - Don Brownlee