Mineralogy and Petrology of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Nucleus Samples

By M. Zolensky, T. Zega, H. Yano, Sue Wirick, A. Westphal, M. Weisberg, I. Weber, J. Warren, M. Velbel, A. Tsuchiyama and 65 more. Science, 2006

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• Astrophysics with Extraterrestrial Materials (2016, background): “Among the ∼0.001 g of material collected from the comet were refractory materials including crystalline olivine and grains rich in Ca and Al (Zolensky et al. 2006), whose chemistry is reminiscent of CAIs, as well as materials that resemble chondrule fragments (Nakamura et al. 2008).”
• Aerogels in Aerospace: An Overview (2013, background): “Interstellar dusts were also found and extracted but none were able to be recognized [132–135].”
• The primordial nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015, background): “Similarly, the extreme variability in silicate Mg/Fe ratios requires highly diverse temperature and oxygen fugacity conditions (Zolensky et al. 2006), thus formation distances.”
• The pH of Enceladus’ ocean (2015, background): “The anhydrous minerals (Brearley & Jones, 1998; Zolensky et al., 2006) that were accreted by Enceladus may have been completely serpentinized during past aqueous alteration (Vance et al., 2007; Neveu et al., 2014), so Enceladus may lack feedstock for contemporary serpentinization.”
• The Effect of Jupiter's Formation on the Distribution of Refractory Elements and Inclusions in Meteorites (2017, background): “…steadily outward flow of gas throughout the outer disk suggests that materials formed in the inner disk, such as fragments of chondrules and CAIs, can easily find themselves mixed into the outer disk, possibly explaining the presence of such objects in the Stardust samples (Zolensky et al. 2006).”
• Quantitative organic and light‐element analysis of comet 81P/Wild 2 particles using C‐, N‐, and O‐μ‐XANES (2008, methodology): “For additional details regarding the particle extraction methods, please refer to Zolensky et al. (2006).”
• The Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks (2010, background): “There is evidence for this from ingredients found in the material brought back from comet Wild-2 (Zolensky et al., 2006) as well as from infrared observations (e.g. van Boekel 2004).”
• The Growth Mechanisms of Macroscopic Bodies in Protoplanetary Disks (2008, methodology): “Samples from comet Wild 2, taken by the Stardust spacecraft, show a wide size range from the nanometer scale to above 10 μm (Brownlee et al. 2006; Zolensky et al. 2006), with indications that the grains ≥1 μm were predominantly produced in the Solar System.”
• Water and astrobiology (2007, background): “Of particular interest is that the dust from both missions showed strong evidence that it had been thoroughly mixed in the proto-Solar nebula prior to its incorporation into the comets (Lisse et al., 2006; Brownlee et al., 2006; Zolensky et al., 2006).”
• Evolution of interstellar dust and stardust in the solar neighbourhood (2007, background): “Presently most of the analysed particles returned by the STARDUST mission seem to be material from the solar system (Zolensky et al. 2006; McKeegan et al. 2006).”