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Fullerene solves an interstellar puzzle

Pascale Ehrenfreund () and Bernard Foing ()
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Pascale Ehrenfreund: Pascale Ehrenfreund is at the Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA.
Bernard Foing: Bernard Foing is at the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency, ESA-ESTEC, 2200 Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Nature, 2015, vol. 523, issue 7560, 296-297

Abstract: Laboratory measurements confirm that a 'buckyball' ion is responsible for two near-infrared absorption features found in spectra of the interstellar medium, casting light on a century-old astrochemical mystery. See Letter p.322

Date: 2015
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