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Lawrence Grossman

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  299
Citations -  13464

Lawrence Grossman is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chondrite & Allende meteorite. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 286 publications receiving 12919 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence Grossman include California Institute of Technology & Smithsonian Institution.

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Condensation in the primitive solar nebula

TL;DR: In this article, the distribution of the major elements between vapor and solid has been calculated for a cooling gas of cosmic composition, assuming that high temperature condensates remain in equilibrium with the vapor, affecting the temperatures of appearance of successively less refractory phases.
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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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A component of primitive nuclear composition in carbonaceous meteorites.

TL;DR: The oxygen of anhydrous, high-temperature minerals in carbonaceous meteorites is strongly depleted in the heavy stable isotopes 17O and 18O and probably results from the admixture of a component of almost pure 16O.
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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.
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Early chemical history of the solar system

TL;DR: In this article, the sequence of condensation of mineral phases from a cooling nebula of solar composition has been calculated by using equilibrium thermodynamics, and theoretical models suggest that the chemistry and mineralogy of Ca-Al-rich inclusions in C2 and C3 chondrites were established during condensation at temperatures above 1300 K.