Horz, F. and Bastien, R. and Borg, J. and Bradley, J.P. and Bridges, J.C. and Brownlee, D.E. and Burchell, M.J. and Chi, M.F. and Cintala, M.J. and Dai, Z.R. and Djouadi, Z. and Dominguez, G. and Economou, T.E. and Fairey, S.A.J. and Floss, C. and Franchi, I.A. and Graham, G.A. and Green, S.F. and Heck, P.R. and Hoppe, P. and Huth, J. and Ishii, H.A. and Kearsley, A.T. and Kissel, J. and Leitner, J. and Leroux, H. and Marhas, K. and Messenger, K. and Schwandt, C.S. and See, T.H. and Snead, C. and Stadermann, F.J. and Stephan, T. and Stroud, R. and Teslich, N. and Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M. and Tuzzolino, A.J. and Troadec, D. and Tsou, P. and Warren, J. and Westphal, A. and Wozniakiewicz, P. and Wright, I. and Zinner, E. (2006) Impact features on Stardust: Implications for comet 81P/Wild 2 dust. Science, 314 (5806). pp. 1716-1719. ISSN 0036-8075.
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Abstract
Particles emanating from comet 81P/ Wild 2 collided with the Stardust spacecraft at 6.1 kilometers per second, producing hypervelocity impact features on the collector surfaces that were returned to Earth. The morphologies of these surprisingly diverse features were created by particles varying from dense mineral grains to loosely bound, polymineralic aggregates ranging from tens of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers in size. The cumulative size distribution of Wild 2 dust is shallower than that of comet Halley, yet steeper than that of comet Grigg-Skjellerup.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Physical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mark Burchell |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2008 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2012 10:18 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/5061 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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