2 papers
astro-ph2006
Analytical scanning and transmission electron microscopy of laboratory impacts on Stardust aluminum foils: interpreting impact crater morphology and the composition of impact residues
A. T. Kearsley, G. A. Graham, M. J. Burchell +8
The known encounter velocity (6.1kms-1) and particle incidence angle (perpendicular) between the Stardust spacecraft and the dust emanating from the nucleus of comet Wild 2 fall wi…
astro-ph2003
Aerogel keystones: extraction of complete hypervelocity impact events from aerogel collectors
Andrew J. Westphal, Christopher J. Snead, Anna L. Butterworth +7
In January 2006, the Stardust mission will return the first samples from a solid solar-system body since Apollo, and the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collec…