Stardust / Stardust NExT
Sample Return · Competed · PI-led · Launched on February 7, 1999 · Completed · LCC: $219M/$464M (2025 $) · Wikipedia
| Tracked publications | 339 |
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| Citations | 15,340 |
| Citation indices | |
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| h-index | 61 |
| g-index | 109 |
| m-index | 2.5 |
| tori | 79 |
| riq | 369 |
Publications and citations by year (lifetime)
Publications per yearCumulative citations
Institutional contributions (lifetime)
Tracked publications over the lifetime (339)
Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope
823
Mineralogy and Petrology of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Nucleus Samples
625
Organics Captured from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust Spacecraft
471
Prebiotic chemicals--amino acid and phosphorus--in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
456
Cometary glycine detected in samples returned by Stardust
410
Isotopic Compositions of Cometary Matter Returned by Stardust
363
Impact Features on Stardust: Implications for Comet 81P/Wild 2 Dust
302
Surface of Young Jupiter Family Comet 81 P/Wild 2: View from the Stardust Spacecraft
270
Chondrulelike Objects in Short-Period Comet 81P/Wild 2
252
Outward Transport of High-Temperature Materials Around the Midplane of the Solar Nebula
244
Comparison of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Dust with Interplanetary Dust from Comets
204
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Elemental Compositions of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Samples Collected by Stardust
183
The primordial nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
172
Extreme Deuterium Excesses in Ultracarbonaceous Micrometeorites from Central Antarctic Snow
163
Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft
162
Dynamical Model for the Zodiacal Cloud and Sporadic Meteors
154
The Stardust Mission: Analyzing Samples from the Edge of the Solar System
152
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149
How we found these papers
We searched NASA’s Science Explorer (SciX) for peer-reviewed articles naming Stardust in the title, abstract or keywords; standard filters drop articles that are not peer-reviewed and magazine pieces.
((((=abs:"Stardust" AND (abs:"Wild 2" OR abs:"Tempel 1" OR =abs:"aerogel" OR abs:"sample return" OR abs:"cometary coma" OR abs:"Dust Flux Monitor" OR abs:"CIDA")) OR (=abs:"Stardust-NExT" OR =title:"Stardust-NExT")) OR =abs:"Stardust spacecraft" OR (=abs:"Wild 2" AND abs:comet AND (abs:sample OR =abs:aerogel OR (abs:organic AND abs:solid) OR (abs:particle AND abs:mineral)))) AND NOT title:("interstellar medium" OR "ISM" OR "star formation" OR "reddening" OR "supernova") NOT title:("David Bowie" OR "Ziggy" OR "movie" OR "entertainment")) AND property:refereed AND doctype:article AND pubdate:[2004-02 TO 2040-01] AND NOT bibstem:("A&R" OR "ACPD" OR "AIASJ" OR "AMTD" OR "AeAm" OR "AirSp" OR "AsNow" OR "AsUAI" OR "AvWST" OR "BGD" OR "C&E" OR "C&T" OR "CAPJ" OR "CliPD" OR "E&S" OR "ENews" OR "ESDD" OR "ESSDD" OR "ESuDD" OR "GID" OR "GMDD" OR "GeCAS" OR "HESSD" OR "IrAJ" OR "JCos" OR "JRASC" OR "LAstr" OR "MNSSA" OR "Met" OR "NHESD" OR "NPGD" OR "NewSc" OR "OcScD" OR "Orion" OR "PhT" OR "PhTea" OR "PhuZ" OR "PhyOJ" OR "PhyW" OR "PlR" OR "SOILD" OR "SciAm" OR "SpFl" OR "TCD" OR "ZemVs")
Added after review
- Assignment of quinone derivatives as the main compound class composing`interstellar' grains based on both polarity ions detected by the`Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyser'(CIDA) onboard the spacecraft STARDUST Interstellar dust composition from cruise mass spectra taken by Stardust's dust analyser.
- Phase curve and albedo of asteroid 5535 Annefrank Asteroid Annefrank phase curve and albedo from Stardust's 2002 flyby images.
Removed after review
- The proposed Caroline ESA M3 mission to a Main Belt Comet Overview of the proposed Caroline comet sample-return mission, which names Stardust only as design heritage.
- The Magnesium Isotope Composition of Samples Returned from Asteroid Ryugu Ryugu sample study that uses "stardust" to mean presolar grains, not the Stardust mission.
- Gradual Destruction of Refractory Stardust in Alkali Brines on Asteroid Bennu Bennu sample study that uses "stardust" to mean presolar grains, not the Stardust mission.
- Comet Wild-2 samples are now available for general allocation and analysis Duplicate record of 2006M&PS...41.1419Z (same paper).