Micro-craters in aluminum foils: Implications for dust particles from comet Wild 2 on NASA's Stardust spacecraft

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1616-1624

  Kearsley, A T ^a   Graham, G A ^b   Burchell, M J ^c   Cole, M J ^c   Wozniakiewicz, P ^a,d   Teslich, N ^b   Bringa, E ^b   Horz F ^e   Blum, J ^f   Poppe, T ^f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cometary dust; Crater morphology; Hypervelocity impact; Stardust; Wild 2

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM FOIL; BALLISTICS; DUST; GLASS; HYPERSONIC FLOW; NASA; POLYDISPERSITY; POLYMERIC GLASS; POLYMERS; PROJECTILES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SPACECRAFT; SPHERES;

COMETARY DUST; CRATER MORPHOLOGY; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT; STARDUST; WILD 2;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 57049100412     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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