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Conel M. O'd. Alexander

Researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science

Publications -  203
Citations -  12878

Conel M. O'd. Alexander is an academic researcher from Carnegie Institution for Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chondrite & Meteorite. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 184 publications receiving 11283 citations. Previous affiliations of Conel M. O'd. Alexander include University of Essex & Open University.

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Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope.

Donald E. Brownlee, +185 more
- 15 Dec 2006 - 
TL;DR: The Stardust spacecraft collected thousands of particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 and returned them to Earth for laboratory study, and preliminary examination shows that the nonvolatile portion of the comet is an unequilibrated assortment of materials that have both presolar and solar system origin.
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Organics captured from comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust spacecraft.

TL;DR: The presence of deuterium and nitrogen-15 excesses suggest that some organics have an interstellar/protostellar heritage and a diverse suite of organic compounds is present and identifiable within the returned samples.
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The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets

TL;DR: Hydrogen isotopic analysis of primitive meteorites implicates asteroids as early sources of Earth’s water and argues against an influx of water ice from the outer solar system, which has been invoked to explain the nonsolar oxygen isotopic composition of the inner solar system.
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The origin and evolution of chondrites recorded in the elemental and isotopic compositions of their macromolecular organic matter

TL;DR: In a survey of the elemental and isotopic compositions of insoluble organic matter (IOM) from 75 carbonaceous, ordinary and enstatite chondrites, this article found dramatic variations within and between chondrite classes.
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STELLAR SAPPHIRES: THE PROPERTIES AND ORIGINS OF PRESOLAR Al 2 O 3 IN METEORITES

TL;DR: In this article, 27 isotopically highly anomalous presolar Al2O3 grains and one presolar MgAl2O4 grain from a separate of the Tieschitz H3.6 ordinary chondrite were identified by an automatic 16O/18O low mass resolution ion-imaging mapping technique in the ion microprobe.