Pristine extraterrestrial material with unprecedented nitrogen isotopic variation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10522-10527

  Briani, Giacomo ^a,b   Gounelle, Matthieu ^a   Marrocchi, Yves ^a   Mostefaoui, Smail ^a   Leroux, Hugues ^c   Quirico, Eric ^d   Meibom, Anders ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Isotopic fractionation; Pristine meteorites; Solar system

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 13; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN 14; NITROGEN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; FRACTIONATION; FRANCE; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MINERALOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISTINE METEORITE; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY;

COSMIC DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METEOROIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINERALS; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SILICATES; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 67649782017     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901546106     Document Type: Article

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