Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VIII: Identification of crystalline material in two interstellar candidates

Abstract Using synchrotron‐based X‐ray diffraction measurements, we identified crystalline material in two particles of extraterrestrial origin extracted from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector. The first particle, I1047,1,34 (Hylabrook), consisted of a mosaiced olivine grain approximately 1 µ m in size with internal strain fields up to 0.3%. The unit cell dimensions were a = 4.85 ± 0.08 Å, b  =  10.34 ± 0.16 Å, c  =  6.08 ± 0.13 Å (2σ). …