Characteristics of cometary dust tracks in Stardust aerogel and laboratory calibrations

— The cometary tray of the NASA Stardust spacecraft's aerogel collector was examined to study the dust captured during the 2004 flyby of comet 81P/Wild 2. An optical scan of the entire collector surface revealed 256 impact features in the aerogel (width >100 μm). Twenty aerogel blocks (out o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Meteoritics & planetary science 2008-02, Vol.43 (1-2), p.23-40
Hauptverfasser:	Burchell, M. J., Fairey, S. A. J., Wozniakiewicz, P., Brownlee, D. E., Hörz, F., Kearsley, A. T., See, T. H., Tsou, P., Westphal, A., Green, S. F., Trigo-Rodríguez, J. M., Domingúez, G.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accumulators Aerogels Astronomical research Calibration Cohesion Collectors Comets Dust Particle size distribution Space exploration Trays
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