Impacts on the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2: Microanalysis and Recognition of Micrometeoroid Compositions

MICROANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION OF MICROMETEOROID COMPOSITIONS. A. T. Kearsley 1 , D. K. Ross 2,3 , P. Anz-Meador 2,3 , J.C. Liou 3 , J. Opiela 2,3 , G. W. Grime 4 , J. L. Colaux 4 , V. V. Palitsin 4 , C. Jeynes 4 , R. P. Webb 4 , P. J. Wozniakiewicz 1,5 , M. C. Price 5 , M. J. Burchell 5 , M. J. Cole 5 , T. Griffin 6 and L. Gerlach 7 . 1 Science Facilities, Natural History Museum (NHM), London, SW7 5BD, UK (antk@nhm.ac.uk) 2 Jacobs Technology, Houston, TX, USA 3 NASA-JSC, Houston, TX, USA 4 Ion Beam Centre (IBC), University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 5 School of Physical Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NH, UK, 6 NASA-GSFC, USA, 7 consultant to European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.