Impact features on stardust: Implications for comet 81P/wild 2 dust

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5806, 2006, Pages 1716-1719

  Hörz, Friedrich ^a   Bastien, Ron ^a   Borg, Janet ^b   Bradley, John P ^c   Bridges, John C ^d   Brownlee, Donald E ^e   Burchell, Mark J ^f   Chi, Miaofang ^c   Cintala, Mark J ^a   Dai, Zu Rong ^c   Djouadi, Zahia ^b   Dominguez, Gerardo ^g   Economou, Thanasis E ^h   Fairey, Sam A J ^f   Floss, Christine ⁱ   Franchi, Ian A ^d   Graham, Giles A ^c   Green, Simon F ^d   Heck, Philipp ^j   Hoppe, Peter ^j   Huth, Joachim ^j   Ishii, Hope ^c   Kearsley, Anton T ^k   Kissel, Jochen ^l   Leitner, Jan ^m   Leroux, Hugues ⁿ   Marhas, Kuljeet ⁱ   Messenger, Keiko ^a   Schwandt, Craig S ^a   See, Thomas H ^a   Snead, Christopher ^o   Stadermann I, Frank J ⁱ   Stephan, Thomas ^m   Stroud, Rhonda ^p   Teslich, Nick ^c   Trigo Rodríguez, Josep M ^q   Tuzzolino, A J ^h   Troadec, David ⁿ   Tsou, Peter ^r   Warren, Jack ^a   Westphal, Andrew ^o   Wozniakiewicz, Penelope ^k   Wright, Ian ^d   Zinner, Ernst ⁱ   more..

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^k DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIV LILLE   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^q INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^r CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; SPACECRAFT;

DENSE MINERAL GRAINS; NANOMETERS; POLYMINERALIC AGGREGATES; STARDUST SPACECRAFT;

SPACE RESEARCH;

NANOPARTICLE;

AGGREGATE SIZE; COMET; IMPACT; INTERPLANETARY DUST; MICROAGGREGATE; MINERAL; PARTICLE SIZE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 33845714295     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135705     Document Type: Article

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