He hoped that such interstellar grains could be discovered within meteorites; and he also advanced a related theory that he called " cosmic chemical memory " by which the effects of stardust can be measured in meteoritic minerals even if stardust itself no longer exists there.
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Hildebrand believes the interstellar grains within the Tagish Lake fragments could have originated long ago on the surface of some carbon-rich " red giant " star and were pushed out into space, sailing under the pressure of that star's solar wind of sub-nuclear particles.
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The arguments are that : given an observed typical grain diameter " a ", the time for a grain to attain " a ", and given the temperature of interstellar gas, it would take considerably longer than the age of the Universe for interstellar grains to form.
