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Abstract
Cometary particles returned by the Stardust Discovery Mission are primarily silicate materials of solar system origin. Some of the grains were formed at high temperatures close to the Sun, but then transported far out to the Kuiper belt region of the solar system before being incorporated in the comet.Entities:
Year: 2006 PMID: 17170288 DOI: 10.1126/science.1137084
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728