# Elemental surface composition of comet 67P grains (Rosetta) and of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites - characterized by multivariate mass spectral data (COSIMA)

Kurt Varmuza, Franz Brandstätter, Hervé Cottin, Cécile Engrand, Ludovic Ferrière, Peter Filzmoser, Nicolas Fray, Martin Hilchenbach, Irene Hoffmann, Jochen Kissel, et al.

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Kurt Varmuza, Franz Brandstätter, Hervé Cottin, Cécile Engrand, Ludovic Ferrière, et al. Elemental surface composition of comet 67P grains (Rosetta) and of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites - characterized by multivariate mass spectral data (COSIMA). 19th EGU General Assembly, Apr 2017, Vienne, Austria. pp.2645. insu-03568158

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Elemental surface composition of comet 67P grains (Rosetta) and of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites - characterized by multivariate mass spectral data (COSIMA)

Kurt Varmuza (1), Franz Brandstätter (2), Hervé Cottin (3), Cécile Engrand (4), Ludovic Ferrière (2), Peter Filzmoser (1), Nicolas Fray (3), Martin Hilchenbach (5), Irene Hoffmann (1), Jochen Kissel (5), Christian Koeberl (2,6), Paola Modica (3,7), John Paquette (5), and Oliver Stenzel (5)

(1) Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (2) Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, (3) LISA, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université Paris Diderot, Créteil, France, (4) CSNSM, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, (5) Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (6) University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (7) LPC2E, CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France

Dust grains have been collected near the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS) COSIMA on board of the Rosetta spacecraft. The measured mass spectra contain information about the inorganic and organic composition of the surface of the grains. For a comparison of this cometary material with carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, a twin laboratory instrument of COSIMA has been used to obtain mass spectra from grain surfaces of the meteorites Allende, Lancé, Murchison and Renazzo. Multivariate data analyses, based on signals from selected ions, indicate similarities of the chemical composition of the surfaces of different sample groups, as well as the heterogeneity of the grains.

Acknowledgments. Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), project P 26871-N20. Thanks to the members of the COSIMA team for their contributions.