Westphal, Andrew J.,
Bastien, Ron,
Borg, Janet,
Bridges, John C.,
Brownlee, Donald E.,
Burchell, Mark J.,
Cheng, Andrew F.,
Clark, Benton C.,
Djouadi, Zahia,
Floss, Christine,
and others.
Franchi, Ian A.,
Gainsforth, Zack,
Graham, Giles A.,
Green, Simon F.,
Heck, Philipp,
Horanyi, Mihaly,
Hoppe, Peter,
Horz, Friedrich,
Huth, Joachim,
Kearsley, Anton T.,
Leroux, Hugues,
Marhas, Kuljeet,
Nakamura-Messenger, Keiko,
Sandford, Scott A.,
See, Thomas A.,
Stadermann, Frank J.,
Teslich, Nicholas,
Tsitrin, Samuel,
Warren, Jack,
Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J.,
and
Zolensky, Michael E.
(hide)
(2008)
Discovery of non-random spatial distribution of impacts in the Stardust cometary collector.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science,
43
(1-2).
pp. 415-429.
ISSN 1086-9379.
(doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb00630.x)
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(KAR id:15325)
Abstract
We report the discovery that impacts in the Stardust cometary collector are not distributed randomly in the collecting media, but appear to be clustered on scales smaller than similar to 10 cm. We also report the discovery of at least two populations of oblique tracks. We evaluate several hypotheses that could explain the observations. No hypothesis is consistent with all the observations, but the preponderance of evidence points toward at least one impact on the central Whipple shield of the spacecraft as the origin of both clustering and low-angle oblique tracks. High-angle oblique tracks unambiguously originate from a non-cometary impact on the spacecraft bus just forward of the collector.
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Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J..
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