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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2020

The detection of solid phosphorus and fluorine in the dust from the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Here, we report the detection of phosphorus and fluorine in solid particles collected from the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured with the COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (COSIMA) instrument on-board the Rosetta spacecraft, only a few kilometers away from the comet nucleus. We have detected phosphorus-containing minerals from the presented COSIMA mass spectra, and can rule out e.g. apatite minerals as the source of phosphorus. This result completes the detection of life-necessary CHNOPS-elements in solid cometary matter, indicating cometary delivery as a potential source of these elements to the young Earth. Fluorine was also detected with CF + secondary ions originating from the cometary dust.
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insu-03028160 , version 1 (27-11-2020)

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Esko Gardner, Harry J Lehto, Kirsi Lehto, Nicolas Fray, Anaïs Bardyn, et al.. The detection of solid phosphorus and fluorine in the dust from the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 499 (2), pp.1870-1873. ⟨10.1093/mnras/staa2950⟩. ⟨insu-03028160⟩
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