Dust from comet Wild 2: Interpreting particle size, shape, structure, and composition from impact features on the Stardust aluminum foils

Aluminum foils of the Stardust cometary dust collector are peppered with impact features of a wide range of sizes and shapes. By comparison to laboratory shots of known particle dimensions and density, using the same velocity and incidence geometry as the Stardust Wild 2 encounter, we can derive siz...

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Main Authors: Kearsley, A., Borg, J., Graham, G., Burchell, M., Cole, M., Leroux, H., Bridges, J., Hörz, F., Wozniakiewicz, P., Bland, Phil, Bradley, J., Dai, Z., Teslich, N., See, T., Hoppe, P., Heck, P., Huth, J., Stadermann, F., Floss, C., Marhas, K., Stephan, T., Leitner, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41958