We report the presence of preserved primitive fine-grained material containing an enstatite whisker with the crystallographic characteristics of a primary condensate in a sample of the Jupiter-family comet Wild 2, returned to earth by NASA's Stardust mission. The preserved primitive material is composed of silica-rich amorphous material embedded with iron sulfides and silicates. It is in close association with a type II chondrule-like object in the track C2052,2,74 (Ogliore et al., 2012). The close association of a chondrule and a primary condensate shows they must have formed in different environments and probably met in the comet-forming region. The first observation of an enstatite whisker with properties indicating primary condensation in a comet is a new link between comets and Chondritic Porous IDPs (CP-IDPs). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Bridges, J. C.
Changela, H. G.
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George Washington Univ, Dept Phys, Washington, DC 20052 USA
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Changela, H. G.
Nayakshin, S.
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Starkey, N. A.
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Hughes, Anna L. H.
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