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Cosmic dust is made of dust grains and aggregates into dust particles. These particles are irregularly shaped, with porosity ranging from fluffy to compact . The composition, size, and other properties depend on where the dust is found, and conversely, a compositional analysis of a dust particle can reveal much about the dust particle's origin.
Stardust's discovery of crystalline silicates in the dust of comet Wild 2 implies that the dust formed above glass temperature (> 1000 K) in the inner disk region around a hot young star, and was radially mixed in the solar nebula from the inner regions a larger distance from the star or the dust particle condensed in the outflow of evolved red ...
The Murchison meteorite is a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria.It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite class, a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds.
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Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft waiting for launch. Stardust had a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004 and also collected interstellar dust containing pre-solar interstellar grains. Presolar grains are interstellar solid matter in the form of tiny solid grains that originated at a time before the Sun ...
Many modern proofs of stellar nucleosynthesis are provided by the isotopic compositions of stardust, solid grains that have condensed from the gases of individual stars and which have been extracted from meteorites. Stardust is one component of cosmic dust and is frequently called presolar grains. The measured isotopic compositions in stardust ...
Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter. [1] On Earth, it generally consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources such as soil lifted by wind (an aeolian process), volcanic eruptions, and pollution. Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells. [2]
Stardust, a 1952 novel by Kathleen Lindsay under the pen name Molly Waring; Stardust, a 1974 novel by William Bayer; Stardust, a novelization of the 1974 film by Ray Connolly; Stardust, a 1982 novel by Anne Hampson; Stardust, a 1983 novel by Parris Afton Bonds; Stardust, a 1988 novel by Nan Ryan; Stardust (Parker novel), a 1990 novel by Robert ...