Curation, spacecraft recovery, and preliminary examination for the Stardust mission: A perspective from the curatorial facility

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 5-21

  Zolensky, Michael ^a   Nakamura Messenger, Keiko ^a   Fletcher, Lisa ^a   See, Thomas ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 46749099103     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2008.tb00607.x     Document Type: Article

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