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Sue Wirick

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  84
Citations -  6601

Sue Wirick is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interplanetary dust cloud & Organic matter. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 82 publications receiving 6088 citations. Previous affiliations of Sue Wirick include State University of New York System & North Carolina State 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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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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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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Spatial complexity of soil organic matter forms at nanometre scales

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used synchrotron-based near-edge X-ray spectromicroscopy of entire and intact free microaggregates to demonstrate that highly variable yet identifiable organic matter forms, such as plant or microbial biopolymers, can be found in soils at distinct locations of the mineral assemblage.
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Stability of biomass-derived black carbon in soils

TL;DR: In this article, the biochemical stability of black carbon (BC) was assessed in a chronosequence of high-BC-containing Anthrosols from the central Amazon, Brazil, using a range of spectroscopic and biological methods.