JSC STARDUST Team

Mike Zolensky
Curation of Returned Samples
Mineralogy-Petrology Characterization Lead

Fred Hörz
Microcrater Characterization Lead

Lindsay Keller
Spectroscopy Lead

Additional Team Members:
• Thomas H. See - ESCG / Barrios Technology
• Lisa Vidonic - NASA
• Jack Warren - ESCG / Jacobs
• Ron Bastien - ESCG / Jacobs
• Gerald Haynes - ESCG / Jacobs

References

Barrett R.A., Zolensky M.E., Hörz F., Lindstrom D.J., and Gibson E.K. (1992) Suitability of silica aerogel as a capture medium for interplanetary dust. Proceedings of the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference 19th, 203-212.

Brownlee D.E., Hörz F., Newburn R., Zolensky M., Duxbury T., Sandford S., Sekanina Z., Tsou P., Hanner M., Clark B., Green S., and Kissel J. (2004) Surface of young Jupiter family comet P81/Wild2: View from the Stardust spacecraft. Science 304, 1764-1769.

Grün E., Zook H.A., Baguhl M., Balogh A., Bame S.J., Fechtig H., Forsyth R., Hanner M.S., Horanyi M., Kissel J., Linblad B.A., Linkert D., Linkert G., Mann I., McDonnell J.A.M., Morfill G.E., Phillips J.L., Polansky C., Schwehn G., Siddique N., Staubach P., Srestka J. and Taylor A. (1993) Discovery of jovian dust streams and interstellar grains by the Ulysses spacecraft. Nature 362, 28-430.

Hörz F., Zolensky M., Bernhard R., See T., and Warren J. (2000) Impact features and projectile residues in aerogel exposed on Mir. Icarus 147, 559-579.

Hörz F., Zolensky M., Cress G., Bernhard R. P., See T. H,. Warren J. H., Brownlee D.E., and Tsou P. (1998) ODC: Aerogel Particle Capture During 18 Months Exposure on MIR. Lunar and Planetary Science XXIV, The Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Kissel J.and Krueger F.R. (1987) The organic component in dust from comet Halley as measured by the PUMA mass spectrometer on board Vega 1. Nature 326, 755-760.

Tsou, P. (1994), International Aerogel Symposium, 4.

Warren J.L. and Zolensky M.E. (1994) Collection and curation of interplanetary dust particles recovered from the stratosphere by NASA. In Analysis of Interplanetary Dust (Eds. M. Zolensky, T. Wilson, F. Rietmeijer, and G. Flynn), pp. 245-253. American Institute of Physics, New York.

Zolensky M.E. and Girard T. (1997) Stardust Spacecraft Program Contamination Control Plan. JSC Publication 27954, 26p.

Zolensky M.E., Pieters C., Clark B., and Papike J. (2000) Small is beautiful; Analysis of nanogram-sized astromaterials. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 9-29