This site <http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ss_findingsd.php> at UC Berkeley is hosted by a group trying to find, with the help of web collaborators, stardust embedded in a spacecraft's cosmic dust trap.
Anyone who passes the test on the group's Virtual Microscope can help find the star particles. Each is about a micron in diameter. There are about 45 of them. "Finding them will be like searching for 45 ants on a football field while searching one 5 cm x 5 cm square at a time. " An American football field is 109.7 m × 48.8 m. If you find one, it will be named after you. This might also make a good optics experiment for a science class.
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