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SCIENCE
Volume 300, Issue 5616, Pages 105-108Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080576
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We have identified six circumstellar silicate grains within interplanetary dust particles (IDPs). Their extrasolar origins are demonstrated by their extremely anomalous oxygen isotopic compositions. Three O-17-rich grains appear to originate from red giant or asymptotic giant branch stars. One O-16-rich grain may be from a metal-poor star. Two O-16-poor grains have unknown stellar sources. One of the grains is forsterite, and two are amorphous silicate GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfides), which is consistent with astronomical identifications of crystalline and amorphous silicates in the outflows of evolved stars. These observations suggest cometary origins of these IDPs and underscore the perplexing absence of silicates among circumstellar dust grains from meteorites.
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