Introducing a brand new special session,
not previously listed in the Call for Papers

STARDUST CHARACTERIZATION

Organized by: G.J. Havrilla, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM , havrilla@lanl.gov. Invited speakers will present their findings for the materials collected from the NASA Stardust mission.

Talks include:

Hyperspectral Non-destructive X-ray Analyses of the 81P/Wild 2 Cometary Grains
A. Simionovici, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Analytical Methods for Discriminating Stardust in Aerogel Capture Media
S. Brennan, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA

Three Dimensional nano-XRF on Cometary Matter
Returned by NASA's Stardust Mission
L. Vincze, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Comet Mineralogy from the STARDUST Mission : A Challenge
F.J.M. Rietmeijer, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Don't miss this exciting opportunity!
Contributed abstracts are welcome!