Detlef Rost

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.

TL;DR: The elements Cu, Zn, and Ga appear enriched in this Wild 2 material, which suggests that the CI meteorites may not represent the solar system composition for these moderately volatile minor elements.

TL;DR: The properties of hundreds of interplanetary particles have been determined by direct laboratory analysis of recovered samples as discussed by the authors, which can be used as guidelines for analysis of spacecraft and astronomical observations and for modeling solar system dust as well as some circumstellar dust in systems around other stars.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the first data of detailed B isotope ( δ 11 B) and light element variations in blueschist-facies minerals from the Mariana arc system.

TL;DR: The Chicago Instrument for Laser Ionization (CHILI) as mentioned in this paper is a resonance ionization mass spectrometer developed for high spatial resolution and high sensitivity of small samples like contemporary interstellar dust grains returned by the Stardust spacecraft.