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Missions to asteroids; journeying to the beginning of our solar system
Cari Corrigan, Andrew Beck and Tim McCoy
Missions to asteroids; journeying to the beginning of our solar system
Elements (February 2012) 8 (1): 9-10
Missions to asteroids; journeying to the beginning of our solar system
Elements (February 2012) 8 (1): 9-10
Index Terms/Descriptors
- achondrites
- asteroids
- basalts
- carbonaceous chondrites
- chondrites
- composition
- cosmic rays
- Dawn Mission
- differentiation
- diogenite
- eucrite
- exploration
- HED meteorites
- howardite
- igneous rocks
- Itokawa Asteroid
- LL chondrites
- meteorites
- noble gases
- ordinary chondrites
- parent bodies
- plutonic rocks
- S-type asteroids
- space weathering
- stony meteorites
- ultramafics
- Vesta Asteroid
- volcanic rocks
- weathering
- Hayabusa Mission
- sample return
- Rheasilvia Basin
ISSN: 1811-5209
Serial Title: Elements
Serial Volume: 8
Serial Issue: 1
Title: Missions to asteroids; journeying to the beginning of our solar system
Affiliation: Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC,
United States
Pages: 9-10
Published: 201202
Text Language: English
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America and Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Mineralogical Association of Canada and Geochemical Society and Clay Minerals Society,
International
References: 10
Accession Number: 2012-052084
Categories: Extraterrestrial geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus.
Country of Publication: International
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, copyright, Mineralogical Society of America. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States
Update Code: 201227
