title: Laboratory analysis of stardust.
abstract: Tiny dust grains extracted from primitive meteorites are identified to have originated in the atmospheres of stars on the basis of their anomalous isotopic compositions. Although isotopic analysis with the ion microprobe plays a major role in the laboratory analysis of these stardust grains, many other microanalytical techniques are applied to extract the maximum amount of information.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Space Sciences and the Physics Department, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States. ekz@wustl.edu
authors.forename: Ernst
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zinner