The Stardust – a successful encounter with the remarkable comet Wild 2

Autor: Brownlee, D. E., Anderson, J. D., Atkins, K., Bhaskaran, S., Cheuvront, A. R., Clark, B. C., Duxbury, T. C., Economou, T., Hanner, M. S., Hörz, F., Kissel, J., Mcdonnell, J. A. M., Simon F. Green, Newburn, R. L., Perkins, D. E., Price, S., Ryan, R. E., Sandford, S., Sekanina, Z., Tsou, P., Tuzzolino, A. J., Villinga, J. M., Williams, K. E., Zolensky, M. E.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
Zdroj: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Open University (ORO-Open Research Online)
Popis: On January 2, 2004 the Stardust spacecraft completed a close flyby of comet Wild2 (P81). Flying at a relative speed of 6.1 km/s within 237km of the 5 km nucleus, the spacecraft took 72 close-in images, measured the flux of impacting particles and did TOF mass spectrometry.
Databáze: OpenAIRE