Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope

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doi:10.1126/science.1135840

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Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope

Published in Science • Dec 15, 2006

Authors:

D. E. Brownlee

P. Tsou

J. Aléon

Abstract

The Stardust spacecraft collected thousands of particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 and returned them to Earth for laboratory study. The preliminary examination of these samples shows that the nonvolatile portion of the comet is an unequilibrated assortment of materials that have both presolar and solar ...

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Comet

Formation and evolution of the Solar System

Solar System

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