Constraining the maximum temperature of atmospheric entry heating of dust particles and the effects of flash heating on He and Ne

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Petrographic and chemical characterization and carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of cometary IDPs and their GEMS amorphous silicatesOPEN ACCESS 

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Birgit Schulz, Christian Vollmer, Jan Leitner, Lindsay P. Keller , Quentin M. Ramasse Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 June 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfides) are the dominant carrier…

Compositional evidence for chondrule origins of low-Ca pyroxenes in comet Wild 2 and a giant cluster IDP

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D. J. Joswiak, D. E. Brownlee, A. J. Westphal, Z. Gainsforth, M. Zhang, N. T. Kita MAPS, Version of Record online: 23 May 2024 LINK “A literature compilation of 1136 low-Ca pyroxene compositions from chondrules…

Comet 81P/Wild 2 dust impactors of Stardust turnip-like tracks analogous to cluster IDPs

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Mingming Zhang, Noël Chaumard, Céline Defouilloy, William O. Nachlas, Donald E. Brownlee, David J. Joswiak, Andrew J. Westphal, Zack Gainsforth, Kouki Kitajima, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 24 February 2024 LINK “We…

Sample return of primitive matter from the outer Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS 

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P. Vernazza, P. Beck, O. Ruesch, A. Bischoff, L. Bonal, G. Brennecka, R. Brunetto, H. Busemann, J. Carter, C. Carli, C. Cartier, M. Ciarniello, V. Debaille, A. Delsanti, L. D’Hendecourt, E. Füri, O. Groussin, A….

Oxygen isotopic composition of an enstatite ribbon of probable cometary originOPEN ACCESS 

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Ryan C. Ogliore, Donald E. Brownlee, Kazuhide Nagashima, David J. Joswiak, Josiah B. Lewis, Alexander N. Krot, Kainen L. Utt, Gary R. Huss Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 23 July 2019 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…

Multiple generations of grain aggregation in different environments preceded solar system body formationOPEN ACCESS 

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Hope A. Ishii, John P. Bradley, Hans A. Bechtel, Donald E. Brownlee, Karen C. Bustillo, James Ciston, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Christine Floss, and David J. Joswiak PNAS June 11, 2018. 201720167; published ahead of print…

Search for Primitive Matter in the Solar System

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G. Libourel, P. Michel, M. Delbo, C. Ganino, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, M. E. Zolensky, A. R. Krot 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2280 LINK

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