id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_da6myl64vvhmhjjcw4nark2axq M. E. ZOLENSKY Small is beautiful: The analysis of nanogram-sized astromaterials 2000 21 .pdf application/pdf 20762 2077 63 analysis o f interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), interstellar grains recovered from meteorites, and other form, Furthermore, because this fine fraction dominates remote measurements, regolith samples also provide points out the limitations of using data obtained from nanogram-sized samples to characterize entire primitive asteroids. sample returns-that the most advanced analysis techniques can always be applied in the laboratory and that always turn to meteorites for further characterization of larger petrographic features that might be lacking in the space-returned samples. This image illustrates the expected state of the samples returned by the Stardust spacecraft from Comet Wild sample mass and grain size could make analysis of microgramto these coarse-grained planetary bodies, the analysis of nanogramsized samples will reveal fundamental information unobtainable Technique Required sample mass Destructiveness FIG 3 Transmission electron microscope dark field images of exsolution phenomena in chondritic interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) (a) A clinopyroxene ./cache/work_da6myl64vvhmhjjcw4nark2axq.pdf ./txt/work_da6myl64vvhmhjjcw4nark2axq.txt