Stardust was very successful beyond all expectation in all its phases.
Stardust is still very healthy and has fuel left over. After dropping the Space Return Canister, the spacecraft was diverted from entering the Earth's atmosphere and placed in an orbit around the sun that could bring it to another comet in February 2011.
It is something like driving a car during a severe hail storm in Chicago - but it's a hundred times worse.
It will take the experts many, many months before they will determine the accurate number, but I am sure that in the end their number will be close to what we have predicted. Stardust was very successful beyond all expectation in all its phases.
