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by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:36am PDT  |  Image 3 of 9

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When it passed through the tail of Wild 2, Stardust's collector, filled with aerogel, acted like a catcher's mitt as it grabbed samples. At the time of Stardust's launch, on Feb. 7, 1999, NASA claimed that aerogel was the lightest man-made material on Earth.

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