NASA NTRS · 20070025093
STARDUST Curation and Science at JSC
Abstract
Dust particles released from comet 81P/Wild-2 were captured in silica aerogel on-board the STARDUST spacecraft and returned to Earth on January 15, 2006. STARDUST recovered thousands of particles ranging in size from 1 to 100 micrometers. During the six month Preliminary Examination period an international consortium of 180 scientists investigated their mineralogy/petrology, organic/inorganic chemistry, optical properties and isotopic compositions. Stardust samples are now available for research by the entire research community.
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Nakamura-Messenger, K., Zolensky, M. E., Bastien, R., See, T. H., Warren, J. L., Bevill, T. J., Todd, N., Fletcher, L., Horz, F., Allen, C. C., Westphal, A. J., Snead, C., Ishii, H. A., Brownlee, D.. 2007-09-19. STARDUST Curation and Science at JSC. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20070025093
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