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Volume 60 Supplement 1

Special Issue: Itokawa-Hayabusa and beyond

Deep Impact and sample return

Earth, Planets and Space volume 60, pages 61–66 (2008)Cite this article

Abstract

Returning a cold sample containing the ices from a cometary nucleus has long been an unachievable goal of cometary scientists. The results from the Deep Impact encounter with comet Tempel 1 suggest that the task is much easier than previously thought. Thus a cold sample return with ice becomes an achievable goal, at least from comet Tempel 1 and plausibly from other, active Jupiter-family comets.

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  1. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-2421, USA

    Michael F. A’Hearn, Tony L. Farnham, Lori M. Feaga, Olivier Groussin & Jessica M. Sunshine

  2. BSEI, 430 S. Randolph Way, Tucson, AZ, 85716, USA

    Michael J. S. Belton

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA

    Steven M. Collins

  4. JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, SD/SRE, ZMP-3, 7707 Montpelier Rd W-155, Laurel, MD, 20723, USA

    Carey M. Lisse

  5. Inst. for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Karen J. Meech

  6. Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    Peter H. Schultz

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A’Hearn, M.F., Belton, M.J.S., Collins, S.M. et al. Deep Impact and sample return. Earth Planet Sp 60, 61–66 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352762

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