Explore popular quotes and sayings by a professor Donald E. Brownlee.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Donald Eugene Brownlee is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington at Seattle and the principal investigator for NASA's Stardust mission. In 2000, along with his co-author Peter Ward, he co-originated the term Rare Earth, in reference to the possible scarcity of life elsewhere in the universe. His primary research interests include astrobiology, comets, and cosmic dust. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.
We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.
There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.