Assessment and control of organic and other contaminants associated with the Stardust sample return from comet 81P/Wild 2

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 406-433

  Sandford, Scott A ^a   Bajt, Saša ^b,o   Clemett, Simon J ^c   Cody, George D ^d   Cooper, George ^a   Degregorio, Bradley T ^e   De Vera, Vanessa ^f   Dworkin, Jason P ^g   Elsila, Jamie E ^g   Flynn, George J ^h   Glavin, Daniel P ^g   Lanzirotti, Antonio ⁱ   Limero, Thomas ^f   Martin, Mildred P ^g,j   Snead, Christopher J ^k   Spencer, Maegan K ^l,p   Stephan, Thomas ⁱ   Westphal, Andrew ^m   Wirick, Sue ⁿ   Zare, Richard N ^l   Zolensky, Michael E ^c   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o DESY   (Germany)

^p Sawtooth Labs Inc   (United States)

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EID: 77954637404     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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