In message , Stephen Fels
writes

"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
in message ...
I'm trying to get something positive out of this loss - did they observe
the fireball as planned?
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There's video of it tumbling through the sky and sitting in its little
crater. You can catch it several times an hour on CNN Headline News.

It's on the web site
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/main/index.html. Looks
really weird, because "tumbling" is the right word. You can't really
tell how far away it was, but I bet they were tempted to try and catch
it.
But I know they were hoping for some real science from this "artificial
meteor" as well as a spectacular show, much brighter than Venus.