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In Situ Measurements of Evolved Solids in Space with Emphasis on Cometary Particles

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In March of 1986 several spacecrafts went by Halley’s comet. Time-of-flight mass spectrometers carried aboard provided in situ measurements of the chemical composition of the dust particles emitted from the nucleus of the comet. The variation in the composition from one grain to another was found to be surprisingly large. Although the ratio of rock forming elements to those forming organic compounds varied enormously, there was no hint of a separate occurrence of one component without the other. This intimate mixture of rocky and organic solids as well as the wide variation of chemical composition points to the fact that this material is indeed left over from the formation of the solar system as aggregates of core-mantle particles evolved from those seen in interstellar space. Infrared observations of interstellar space show the presence of large quantities of such small dust particles.

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Kissel, J. (1999). In Situ Measurements of Evolved Solids in Space with Emphasis on Cometary Particles. In: Greenberg, J.M., Li, A. (eds) Formation and Evolution of Solids in Space. NATO ASI Series, vol 523. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4806-1_26

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