Cosmonauts Set Up ‘Meteorite Trap’
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Two cosmonauts on the Mir space station took a spacewalk to mount a French-made device for catching and studying meteorite particles. The “meteorite trap” will collect data on a barrage of particles expected to peak around Mir in mid-November, a mission control spokesman said. A French astronaut will take the device back to Earth for analysis early next year.
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