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McKeegan, Kevin D.; Aléon, Jerome; Bradley, John; Brownlee, Donald; Busemann, Henner; Butterworth, Anna; Chaussidon, Marc; Fallon, Stewart; Floss, Christine; Gilmour, Jamie; Gounelle, Matthieu; Graham, Giles; Guan, Yunbin; Heck, Philipp R.; Hoppe, Peter; Hutcheon, Ian D.; Huth, Joachim; Ishii, Hope; Ito, Motoo; Jacobsen, Stein B.; Kearsley, Anton; Leshin, Laurie A.; Liu, Ming-Chang; Lyon, Ian; [...]

Isotopic Compositions of Cometary Matter Returned by Stardust

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Isotopic Compositions of Cometary Matter Returned by Stardust
  • Contributor: McKeegan, Kevin D.; Aléon, Jerome; Bradley, John; Brownlee, Donald; Busemann, Henner; Butterworth, Anna; Chaussidon, Marc; Fallon, Stewart; Floss, Christine; Gilmour, Jamie; Gounelle, Matthieu; Graham, Giles; Guan, Yunbin; Heck, Philipp R.; Hoppe, Peter; Hutcheon, Ian D.; Huth, Joachim; Ishii, Hope; Ito, Motoo; Jacobsen, Stein B.; Kearsley, Anton; Leshin, Laurie A.; Liu, Ming-Chang; Lyon, Ian; [...]
  • imprint: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
  • Keywords: Special Section: Stardust
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  • Description: <p>Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopic compositions are heterogeneous among comet 81P/Wild 2 particle fragments; however, extreme isotopic anomalies are rare, indicating that the comet is not a pristine aggregate of presolar materials. Nonterrestrial nitrogen and neon isotope ratios suggest that indigenous organic matter and highly volatile materials were successfully collected. Except for a single<tex-math>${}^{17}\text{O}$</tex-math>-enriched circumstellar stardust grain, silicate and oxide minerals have oxygen isotopic compositions consistent with solar system origin. One refractory grain is<tex-math>${}^{16}\text{O}$</tex-math>-enriched, like refractory inclusions in meteorites, suggesting that Wild 2 contains material formed at high temperature in the inner solar system and transported to the Kuiper belt before comet accretion.</p>