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Elemental compositions of comet 81P/wild 2 samples collected by stardust

Flynn, George J., Bleuet, Pierre, Borg, Janet, Bradley, John P., Brenker, Frank E., Brennen, Sean, Bridges, John, Brownlee, Don E., Bullock, Emma S., Burghammer, Manfred, and others. (2006) Elemental compositions of comet 81P/wild 2 samples collected by stardust. Science, 314 (5806). pp. 1731-1735. ISSN 0036-8075. E-ISSN 1095-9203. (doi:10.1126/science.1136141) (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:53885)

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Abstract

We measured the elemental compositions of material from 23 particles in aerogel and from residue in seven craters in aluminum foil that was collected during passage of the Stardust spacecraft through the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2. These particles are chemically heterogeneous at the largest size scale analyzed (-180 ng). The mean elemental composition of this Wild 2 material is consistent with the Cl meteorite composition, which is thought to represent the bulk composition of the solar system, for the elements Mg, Si, Mn, Fe, and Ni to 35%, and for Ca and Ti to 60%. The elements Cu, Zn, and Ga appear enriched in this Wild 2 material, which suggests that the Cl meteorites may not represent the solar system composition for these moderately volatile minor elements.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1126/science.1136141
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: LA - English [Field not mapped to EPrints] J2 - Science [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Physics, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 101 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Institut für Mineralogy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Lockheed Martin, Post Office Box 179, Denver, CO 80201, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - �cole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Laboratory Pierre Süe, CEA/CNRS, Saclay, France [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Chemistry, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 SBD, United Kingdom [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Institut für Planetologie, Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - University Lille, Lille, France [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Engineering and Science Contract Group/Jacobs Sverdrup, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 770S8, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - XRT Limited, Port Melbourne, Vic., Australia [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8, Hyougo, Japan [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Engineering Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755, United States [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan [Field not mapped to EPrints] AD - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium [Field not mapped to EPrints] DB - Scopus [Field not mapped to EPrints] M3 - Article [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Uncontrolled keywords: Aerogels, Chlorine, Elementary particles, Gallium, Meteorites, Solar system, Spacecraft, Craters, Elemental compositions, Stardust, Volatile minor elements, Space research, calcium, copper, gallium, iron, magnesium, manganese, nickel, titanium, volatile agent, zinc, chemical composition, comet, crater, heavy metal, interplanetary dust, meteorite, particle size, trace metal, accuracy, aluminum foil, article, astronomy, calibration, chemical composition, dust, materials, measurement, Monte Carlo method, particle size, priority journal, space flight, X ray fluorescence
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB651 Planets, Minor
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Giles Tarver
Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2016 10:34 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:22 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/53885 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J..

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