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Isotopic compositions of cometary matter returned by Stardust

McKeegan, Kevin D.
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Aleon, Jerome
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Bradley, John
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2006
Science

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 O-17-enriched circumstellar stardust grain, silicate and oxide minerals have oxygen isotopic compositions consistent with solar system origin. One refractory grain is O-16-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.

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research article
DOI
10.1126/science.1135992
Author(s)
McKeegan, Kevin D.
Aleon, Jerome
Bradley, John
Brownlee, Donald
Busemann, Henner
Butterworth, Anna
Chaussidon, Marc
Fallon, Stewart
Floss, Christine
Gilmour, Jamie
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Date Issued

2006

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Published in
Science
Volume

314

Start page

1724

End page

1728

Subjects

Interplanetary Dust Particles

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Crystalline Silicates

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Hale-Bopp

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Oxygen Isotopes

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Organic-Matter

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Meteorites

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Nitrogen

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Presolar

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Origin

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May 15, 2012
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