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SMART-1 highlights and relevant studies on early bombardment and geological processes on rocky planets
Grande, M.; Koschny, D.; Mall, U. +16 more
We present results from SMART-1 science and technology payload, in the context of the Nobel symposium on 'Physics of Planetary Systems'. SMART-1 is Europe' first lunar mission (Foing et al 2000 LPSC XXXI Abstract #1677 (CDROM); Foing et al 2001 Earth, Moon Planets 85 86 523 31 Marini et al 2002 Adv. Space Res. 30 1895 900 Racca et al 2001 Earth Mo…
Planetary transits from CoRoT—Europe and exoplanets
Fridlund, C. V. M.
CoRoT (COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transit) was launched successfully into a near-perfect orbit on 27 December 2006 and went through its verification phase until 2 April 2007 without incident. Indeed, this process went so well that scientific operations could commence on 2 February 2007. Under the management of the French space agency CNES …
How unique is the local region of the Galaxy disk?
Heiter, U.; Luck, R. E.
We present the results of a spectroscopic study of over 500 dwarf and giant stars within 100 pc of the Sun. Using stellar metallicity data, the goal of this study is to determine whether there are any significant variations of metallicity related to stellar characteristics or location in the Galaxy. The abundance data are based on high-resolution …