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Aspects of the major element composition of Halley's dust

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The chemical composition of the solid grains from comet Halley can be inferred from impact-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Halley's dust in the vicinity of the VEGA-1 spacecraft is a mixture of a refractory organic component and unequilibrated silicates, but detailed chemical information on individual particles is difficult to extract because of the complexity of the impact-ionization process.

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