Organics captured from comet 81P/wild 2 by the stardust spacecraft

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5806, 2006, Pages 1720-1724

  Sandford, Scott A ^a   Aléon, Jérôme ^b,c   Alexander, Conel M O'D ^d   Araki, Tohru ^e   Bajt, Saša ^b   Baratta, Giuseppe A ^f   Borg, Janet ^g   Bradley, John P ^b   Brownlee, Donald E ^h   Brucato, John R ⁱ   Burchell, Mark J ^j   Busemann, Henner ^d   Butterworth, Anna ^k   Clemett, Simon J ^l   Cody, George ^d   Colangeli, Luigi ⁱ   Cooper, George ^a   D'Hendecourt, Louis ^f   Djouadi, Zahia ^g   Dworkin, Jason P ^m   Ferrini, Gianluca ⁿ   Fleckenstein, Holger ^o   Flynn, George J ^p   Franchi, Ian A ^q   Fries, Marc ^d   Gilles, Mary K ^r   Glavin, Daniel P ^m   Gounelle, Matthieu ^s   Grossemy, Faustine ^g   Jacobsen, Chris ^o   Keller, Lindsay P ^l   Kilcoyne, A L David ^r   Leitner, Jan ^t   Matrajt, Graciela ^h   Meibom, Anders ^s   Mennella, Vito ⁱ   Mostefaoui, Smail ^s   Nittler, Larry R ^d   Palumbo, Maria E ^f   Papanastassiou, Dimitri A ^u   Robert, François ^s   Rotundi, Alessandra ^v   Snead, Christopher J ^k   Spencer, Maegan K ^w   Stadermann, Frank J ^x   Steele, Andrew ^d   Stephan, Thomas ^t   Tsou, Peter ^u   Tyliszczak, Tolek ^r   Westphal, Andrew J ^k   Wirick, Sue ^o   Wopenka, Brigitte ^x   Yabuta, Hikaru ^d   Zare, Richard N ^w   Zolensky, Michael E ^l   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^m NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ Città della Scienza   (Italy)

^o STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^q OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^r LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^s MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^u CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^w STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CARBONATE MINERALS; DEUTERIUM; DUST; METEORITES; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

CARBONACEOUS METEORITES; METEORITIC ORGANICS; PROTOSTELLAR HERITAGE;

SPACECRAFT;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; DEUTERIUM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMET; INTERPLANETARY DUST; METEORITE; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; HEATING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; MASS; OXIDATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CARBON; COSMIC DUST; DEUTERIUM; METEOROIDS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXYGEN; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33845712548     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135841     Document Type: Article

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