Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system

Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system

Small solar system bodies like asteroids and comets have escaped planetary accretion. They are the oldest and best preserved witnesses of the formation of the solar system. Samples of these celestial bodies fall on Earth as meteorites and interplanetary dust. The STARDUST mission also recently retur...

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Main Author: Engrand C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2012-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111805001
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spelling doaj-eb64a4245e634540a365b392d685e97c2021-08-02T01:31:33ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2012-01-01180500110.1051/epjconf/20111805001Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar systemEngrand C.Small solar system bodies like asteroids and comets have escaped planetary accretion. They are the oldest and best preserved witnesses of the formation of the solar system. Samples of these celestial bodies fall on Earth as meteorites and interplanetary dust. The STARDUST mission also recently returned to Earth cometary dust from comet 81P/Wild 2, a Jupiter Family Comet (JFC). These samples provide unique insights on the physico-chemical conditions and early processes of the solar system. They also contain some minute amount of materials inherited from the local interstellar medium that have survived the accretion processes in the solar system. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111805001
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Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
EPJ Web of Conferences
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title Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
title_short Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
title_full Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
title_fullStr Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
title_full_unstemmed Meteorites and cosmic dust: Interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
title_sort meteorites and cosmic dust: interstellar heritage and nebular processes in the early solar system
publisher EDP Sciences
series EPJ Web of Conferences
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publishDate 2012-01-01
description Small solar system bodies like asteroids and comets have escaped planetary accretion. They are the oldest and best preserved witnesses of the formation of the solar system. Samples of these celestial bodies fall on Earth as meteorites and interplanetary dust. The STARDUST mission also recently returned to Earth cometary dust from comet 81P/Wild 2, a Jupiter Family Comet (JFC). These samples provide unique insights on the physico-chemical conditions and early processes of the solar system. They also contain some minute amount of materials inherited from the local interstellar medium that have survived the accretion processes in the solar system.
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