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The fastest reentry on record of any man-made object produced this meteor-like image in the night sky above Nevada as the Stardust return capsule streaked to a perfect landing in Utah (see p. 20). Besides returning dust from Comet Wild 2, the capsule's blazing reentry was studied by meteorologists...
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