Dust Flux Monitor Instrument for the Stardust mission to comet Wild 2

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Tuzzolino, A J ^a   Economou, T E ^a   McKibben, R B ^a   Simpson, J A ^a   McDonnell, J A M ^b   Burchell, M J ^b   Vaughan, B A M ^b   Tsou, P ^c   Hanner, M S ^c   Clark, B C ^d   Brownlee, D E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

DFMI; Dust fluxes; PVDF; PVDF dust detectors; Stardust; Wild 2 comet

Indexed keywords

COMET; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 17944396070     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002086     Document Type: Article

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