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Instellar gas experiment (IGE): Testing interstellar gas particles to provide information on the processes of nucleosynthesis in the big bang stars and supernova. Final report

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Description

The Interstellar Gas Experiment (IGE) is designed to collect particles of the interstellar gas - a wind of interstellar media particles moving in the vicinity of the solar system. These particles will be returned to earth where the isotopic ratios of the noble gases among these particles will be measured. IGE was designed and programmed to expose 7 sets of six copper-beryllium metallic collecting foils to the flux of neutral interstellar gas particles which penetrate the heliosphere to the vicinity of the earth's orbit. These particles are trapped in the collecting foils and will be returned to earth for mass-spectrographic analysis when Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) on which IGE was launched, is recovered

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; NTIS HC/MF A03; INIS.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
19 p.
Report number
N--91-14097

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22074661
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Progress Report
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; COSMIC DUST; COSMOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTELLAR GRAINS; ISOTOPE RATIO; ORBITS; PROGRESS REPORT; RARE GASES; SAMPLING; SOLAR SYSTEM
Descriptors DEC
CHEMISTRY; DUSTS; ELEMENTS; NONMETALS; PARTICLES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract NAG1-702
Secondary number(s)
NASA-CR--186713; NAS--1.26:186713.