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SIMS in the Space Sciences: The Zinner Impact Washington University St. Louis, Missouri February 3-4, 2007	In conjunction with a scientific symposium to acknowledge his contributions in the field of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and its applications in the earth and space sciences, Meteoritics and Planetary Science has published a special issue honoring Ernst Zinner.
Presolar Grain Database	Three of our graduate students (Frank Gyngard, Mairin Hynes and Manavi Jadhav) have taken it upon themselves to compile a comprehensive database of the isotopic compositions of over 10,000 presolar grains. This presolar grain database was first made public in connection with the Zinner Impact Symposium in 2007 and will be updated regularly.
STARDUST is back!	The sample canister from NASA's Stardust space mission to collect dust samples from comet Wild-2 has made it back safely to Earth. The first cometary dust particles have arrived in our laboratory and our group will perform a variety of analyses during the 'Preliminary Examination' of these exciting new types of extraterrestrial materials. Since the analysis of cometary dust particles will be an important component of our work, we plan to add a special Stardust mission web page.
Articles about our group in the Washington University media additional articles	2005-04-07 Washington University physicists begin measurement of Genesis samples. Catching the solar wind. Hohenberg, Meshik 2006-03-10 Scientists hope comet dust will give numerous insights. Stadermann, Zinner, Floss, Marhas, Hohenberg, Meshik, Pravdivtseva 2006-12-14 Washington University lab first to find 'real' stardust from Stardust mission. Stadermann, Floss, Zinner, Marhas 2007-01-18 'Real' stardust from NASA mission lands on campus. Stadermann, Floss, Zinner, Marhas 2007-01-30 Physicist to be recognized for helping 'revolutionize astronomy'. Zinner 2007-10-29 Washington University scientists analyze solar wind samples from Genesis mission. Meshik, Hohenberg, Pravdivtseva, Mabry
Pictures	See photos of friends and colleagues, events and things: Miscellaneous Collection 1: 1982-1995 Laboratory Study of Presolar Grain conference 1996 Presolar Grain Workshop 1999 Inpressions from the NanoSIMS before its arrival in St. Louis Presolar Grain Workshop 2000 Arrival of the NanoSIMS in December 2000 Presolar Grain Workshop 2001 NanoSIMS Open House April 2002 Presolar Grain Workshop 2002 Walker Symposium March 2003, Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5 Walker Symposium March 2003, photos from the WU Record Walker Memorial Service May 2004 Zinner Impact Symposium, February 2007
Publications	For an assortment of publications from our group, see the Laboratory for Space Sciences Publications page.
News Archive	Robert M. Walker, the longtime leader of the Space Sciences group died on February 12, 2004 at the age of 75. For an overview of his life's many accomplishments, see the Walker home page. In order to honor Prof. Walker and to thank him for the many contributions he has made to science and to Washington University, we organized the Robert M. Walker Symposium which took place March 6-7, 2003. Home page of the annual Presolar Grain Workshop, alternately taking place at Clemson University and at Washington University. Website of the Conference on the Astrophysical Implications of the Laboratory Study of Presolar Materials, which we held at Washington University in 1996. The 2001 Nier Prize of the Meteoritical Society was awarded to Larry Nittler during the Meteoritical Society Meeting in Rome. Larry was a graduate student from our group who got his PhD in 1996. Read the citation for the award by Ernst Zinner.
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