Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope

By D. Brownlee, P. Tsou, J. Aléon, C. Alexander, T. Araki, S. Bajt, G. Baratta, R. Bastien, Phil A. Bland, P. Bleuet and 173 more. Science, 2006

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• Ultra-primitive interplanetary dust particles from the comet 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup dust stream collection (2009, methodology): “This observation supports general turbulent radial mixing scenarios suggested for the early solar system (as does the presence of high-temperature materials in the outer solar system, as found in Stardust, Brownlee et al., 2006), and particularly the inward transport of material (e.g., Ciesla, 2009 ”
• Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk (2011, background): “%) amorphous (Bradley 2003, Kemper et al. 2004, Brownlee et al. 2006, Wooden et al. 2006).”
• DENSITY AND CHARGE OF PRISTINE FLUFFY PARTICLES FROM COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV–GERASIMENKO (2015, result): “Some particles approaching the Stardust spacecraft (Brownlee et al. 2006) could have had a similar low density: they could have fragmented into the denser collected grains following a process similar to that discussed in this paper.”
• Dead Zone Accretion Flows in Protostellar Disks (2008, background): “The radial transport of material over large distances in the early solar system is indicated by the presence of crystalline silicate grains in comet 81P/Wild 2 (Brownlee et al. 2006).”
• Elemental and molecular abundances in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2019, background): “On the other hand, a large number of high temperature condensates that were processed close to the Sun or by shocks in the disc have been identified in the samples returned by NASA’s Stardust mission to comet Wild 2 (Brownlee et al. 2006; McKeegan et al. 2006).”
• Cometary glycine detected in samples returned by Stardust (2009, methodology): “Our previous analysis of cometary samples returned to Earth by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft showed several amines and amino acids, but the origin of these compounds could not be firmly established.”
• Global Simulations of the Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks with Comprehensive Disk Microphysics (2017, background): “…for such radial mixing in the solar system has been mounting, especially based on the findings of crystalline silicates in comets (e.g., Bockelée-Morvan et al. 2002 and references therein), and more directly from samples collected from comet 81P/Wild 2 (Brownlee et al. 2006; Nakamura et al. 2008).”
• Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields (2012, neutral): “Clathrate hydrate formation has become an attractive explanation in recent years, following the visit of comet Hale–Bopp and the analysis of the Stardust mission samples (e.g., Brownlee et al. (2006)) which may be consistent with large-scale circulation in the solar nebula.”