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Stardust passed through the dense gas and dust surrounding the comet in 2004. The material was stowed in a capsule, which detached from the spacecraft and parachuted to earth in 2006.
The new research was presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. over the weekend.
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