Along-track compositional and textural variation in extensively melted grains returned from comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust mission: Implications for capture-melting process

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1519-1540

  Velbel, Michael A ^a   Harvey, Ralph P ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 76649117782     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb01190.x     Document Type: Article

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