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D. A. Papanastassiou

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  150
Citations -  12820

D. A. Papanastassiou is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meteorite & Chondrite. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 147 publications receiving 12298 citations. Previous affiliations of D. A. Papanastassiou include Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Ca isotope fractionation on the Earth and other solar system materials

TL;DR: In this paper, it was demonstrated that differences in the Ca/^(44)Ca ratio due to mass dependent isotope fractionation in nature are clearly resolvable to a level of 0.001.
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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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Isotopic evidence for a terminal lunar cataclysm

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that highland samples from widely separated areas bear the imprint of an event or series of events in a narrow time interval which can be identified with a cataclysmic impacting rate of the moon at about 3.9 aeons.
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Negative thermal ion mass spectrometry of osmium, rhenium, and iridium

TL;DR: In this article, a negative thermal ion mass spectrometer was used to obtain intense ion beams of negatively charged oxides of Os, Re and Ir by thermal ionization, in a conventional surface ionization mass analyzer.
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Mineralogy and petrology of comet 81P/wild 2 nucleus samples

Michael E. Zolensky, +75 more
- 15 Dec 2006 - 
TL;DR: The bulk of the comet 81P/Wild 2 samples returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft appear to be weakly constructed mixtures of nanometer-scale grains, with occasional much larger ferromagnesian silicates, Fe-Ni sulfides,Fe-Ni metal, and accessory phases.