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Impact features on Stardust: Implications for comet 81P/Wild 2 dust

Horz, Friedrich, Bastien, Ron, Borg, Janet, Bradley, John P., Bridges, John C., Brownlee, Donald E., Burchell, Mark J., Chi, Miaofang, Cintala, Mark J., Dai, Zurong, and others. (2006) Impact features on Stardust: Implications for comet 81P/Wild 2 dust. Science, 314 (5806). pp. 1716-1719. ISSN 0036-8075. (doi:10.1126/science.1135705) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:5061)

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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
DOI/Identification number: 10.1126/science.1135705
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Mark Burchell
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2008 13:09 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:43 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/5061 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Burchell, Mark J..

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Green, Simon F..

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Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J..

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