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Interstellar Grains in Museums?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. G. W. Cameron*
Affiliation:
Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Abstract

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It is argued that carbonaceous chondrites, particularly of type I, are probably collections of interstellar grains which have been mildly transformed through exposure to higher than normal temperatures, resulting in a loss of volatile materials.

Type
Part X Miscellaneous
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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