A specially designed collector gathered dust particles from the comet and stored them on the spacecraft.

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Many scientists dismiss the comet theory.

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In that event,astronomers were able to observe the icy comet long before it struck the solar system's biggest planet.

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Sometimes,observers see this as a comet's tail, which can be visible to the unaided eye stretching across the night sky.

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Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland, found the substance glycine in material brought back to Earth from a comet.

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But the object that struck Jupiter in July is estimated to have been much smaller and harder to see than comet Shoemaker-Levy.

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Since then, scientists around the world have been working to identify substances gathered from Comet Wild-Two.

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But it is the first time an amino acid has been discovered on a comet.

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