Journal article
Final reports of the Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination
Abstract
Abstract With the discovery of bona fide extraterrestrial materials in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector, NASA now has a fundamentally new returned sample collection, after the Apollo, Antarctic meteorite, Cosmic Dust, Genesis, Stardust Cometary, Hayabusa, and Exposed Space Hardware samples. Here, and in companion papers in this volume, we present the results from the Preliminary Examination of this collection, the Stardust Interstellar …
Authors
Westphal AJ; Bechtel HA; Brenker FE; Butterworth AL; Flynn G; Frank DR; Gainsforth Z; Hillier JK; Postberg F; Simionovici AS
Journal
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1720–1733
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
September 2014
DOI
10.1111/maps.12221
ISSN
1086-9379