Isotopic compositions of cometary matter returned by stardust

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5806, 2006, Pages 1724-1728

  McKeegan, Kevin D ^a   Aléon, Jerome ^b,c   Bradley, John ^c   Brownlee, Donald ^d   Busemann, Henner ^e   Butterworth, Anna ^f   Chaussidon, Marc ^g   Fallon, Stewart ^c   Floss, Christine ^h   Gilmour, Jamie ⁱ   Gounelle, Matthieu ^j   Graham, Giles ^c   Guan, Yunbin ^k   Heck, Philipp R ^l   Hoppe, Peter ^l   Hutcheon, Ian D ^c   Huth, Joachim ^l   Ishii, Hope ^c   Ito, Motoo ^m   Jacobsen, Stein B ⁿ   Kearsley, Anton ^o   Leshin, Laurie A ^p   Liu, Ming Chang ^a   Lyon, Ian ⁱ   Marhas, Kuljeet ^h   Marty, Bernard ^g   Matrajt, Graciela ^d   Meibom, Anders ^j   Messenger, Scott ^m   Mostefaoui, Smail ^j   Mukhopadhyay, Sujoy ⁿ   Nakamura Messenger, Keiko ^m,q   Nittler, Larry ^e   Palma, Russ ^r,s   Pepin, Robert O ^s   Papanastassiou, Dimitri A ^t   Robert, François ^j   Schlutter, Dennis ^s   Snead, Christopher J ^f   Stadermann, Frank J ^h   Stroud, Rhonda ^u   Tsou, Peter ^t   Westphal, Andrew ^f   Young, Edward D ^a   Ziegler, Karen ^a   Zimmermann, Laurent ^g   Zinner, Ernst ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 91405 Orsay Campus   (France)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CRPG CNRS   (France)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^j MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^m NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^p NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^q JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^r MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s University of Minnesota   (United States)

^t CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^u NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CARBON; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; METEORITES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMET ACCRETION; COMETARY MATTER; KUIPER BELT; PRESOLAR MATERIALS; PRISTINE AGGREGATE; STARDUST; VOLATILE MATERIAL;

SPACE RESEARCH;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SILICATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CARBON ISOTOPE; COMET; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; INTERPLANETARY DUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SILICATE MINERAL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARBON ISOTOPES; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; METEOROIDS; NEON; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NOBLE GASES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33845684118     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135992     Document Type: Article

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