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Samples From The Sun

GEOCHEMISTS STUDY SOLAR SYSTEM'S ORIGINS WITH NEW SPACECRAFt

January 1, 2004

A new NASA program called the Genesis Mission is launching a spacecraft to collect particles from the sunýs solar wind to obtain information on the origin of earth and other bodies in the solar system.

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Martha J. Heil
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American Institute of Physics
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