Don Brownlee
Don Brownlee
blow button felt finger guy vehicle verge
It felt like the whole thing was on the verge of disaster. There was this guy with his finger on a button to blow the vehicle up if it went off range. ... No one said anything for minutes.
biggest finger impacts
The biggest impacts were big enough to put your little finger in.
collected grain
Every grain that we collected has a story to tell.
history written
Our history is written at the submicron level, in these interstellar grains.
built engineers seemed
All the engineers who built it seemed to be happy. It's very strong.
mystery
This is very exciting. It's a mystery story.
aided blown entire eye high particle
You can't see them with the unaided eye (but) with the aided eye (through a microscope) you can see everything. A little particle blown up to high magnification is like working on an entire state! It's amazing.
scientific
It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.
exciting mystery stay
This is a really exciting mystery story, so stay tuned.
absolutely comet identified particle seeing
You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.
fire found remarkably samples solar
Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice. We have found samples in the coldest part of the solar system.
break concern major
One major concern was having it break open.
cent comet exactly organic per
About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all are but it is very exciting.
angle appeared five half jumping lasted maybe minutes noticed ran red saw supposed tail yelling
Five minutes before it was supposed to come in, we ran outside. I saw this red thing that, at first, I thought was Mars. Then I noticed it was moving, from our angle it appeared to be climbing. Pretty soon, it had this glowing, reddish tail that lasted maybe half a minute. ... We were all yelling and jumping up and down.