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Peeters, E., S. Hony, C. VanKerckhoven, A. G. G.M. Tielens, L. J. Allamandola, D. M. Hudgins, & C. W. Bauschlicher (2002). The Rich 6 to 9 micron Spectrum of Interstellar PAHs. A&A 390, 1089-1113. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Elsila, J. E., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Allamandola, L. J. & Zare, R. N. (2002). Side group Addition to the PAH Coronene by UV Photolysis in Cosmic Ice analogs. Astrophys. J 576, 1115-1120. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., Cooper, G. W., & Allamandola, L. J. (2002). Racemic amino acids from the ultraviolet photolysis of interstellar ice analogues. Nature 416, 401-403. [PDF]

Bernstein, M. P., Dworkin, J. P., Sandford, S. A., & Allamandola, L. J. (2001). Ultraviolet Irradiation of Naphthalene in H₂O Ice: Implications for Meteorites and Biogenesis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, 351-358. [PDF]

Sandford, S. A., Bernstein, M. P., & Dworkin, J. P. (2001) Assessment of the Interstellar Processes Leading to Deuterium Enrichment in Meteoritic Organics Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, 1117-1133. [PDF]

Sandford, S. A., Dworkin, J. P., Deamer, D. W., & Allamandola, L. J. (2001). Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Molecules: A Possible Linkage Between Interstellar Chemistry and Meteoritic Organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, A181-182. [PDF]

Becker, L., Bunch, T. E., & Allamandola, L. J. (1999). C₆₀, C₇₀ and the Higher Fullerenes (C₁₀₀ to C₄₀₀) in the Allende Meteorite. Nature 400, 227-228. [PDF]

Sandford, S. A. (1998). Meteorites on Ice: Collecting Primitive Solar System Materials in Antarctica. In Astrophysics from Antarctica, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Series, Vol. 141, Proceedings of the ASP Summer Sci. Symp. Conf., Chicago, Illinois, 30 June - 2 July, 1997, G. Novak and R. H. Landsberg (eds.), (ASP: San Francisco), pp. 265-282.

Brownlee, D. E., Burnett, D., Clark, B., Hanner, M., Hörz, F. Kissel, J., Newburn, R., Sandford, S., Sekanina, Z., Tsou, P., & Zolensky, M. (1996). Stardust: Comet and interstellar dust sample return mission. In Physics, Chemistry, and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser., Vol. 104, eds. B. A. S. Gustafson & M. S. Hanner, (Astron. Soc. Pac.: San Francisco), pp. 223-226.

Sandford, S.A. (1993). The Mid-Infrared Transmission Spectra of Antarctic Ureilites. Meteoritics 28, 579-585. [PDF]

Brownlee, D.E., & Sandford, S.A. (1992). Cosmic dust. In Exobiology in Solar System Exploration, Report on the Symposium held in Sunnyvale, CA, August 24-26, 1988, eds. G.C. Carle, D.E. Schwartz, & J.L. Huntington, NASA SP-512, pp. 145-157.

Sandford, S.A. (1992). A Report on the 1984-1985 ANSMET Field Season. In Field and Laboratory Investigations of Antarctic Meteorites Collected by United States Expeditions, 1985-1987, eds., U.B. Marvin & G.J. MacPherson, Smithsonian Contributions #30, pp. 5-9.

Sandford, S.A. (1991). Constraints on the Parent Bodies of Collected Interplanetary Dust Particles. In Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust, eds. A. C. Levasseur-Regourd & H. Hasegawa, Proc. of IAU Coll. No. 126, Kyoto, Japan, (Kluwer Academic: Japan), pp. 397-404.

Krishna Swamy, K.S., Sandford, S.A., Allamandola, L.J., Witteborn, F.C., & Bregman, J.D. (1989). Infrared emission from comets. Astrophys. J. 340, 537-549. [PDF]

Sandford, S.A. (1989). Interstellar Dust in Collected Interplanetary Dust Particles. In Interstellar Dust, IAU Symposium #135, eds. L. J. Allamandola & A. G. G. M. Tielens, (Kluwer: Dordrecht), 403-413.

Sandford, S.A., & Bradley, J.P. (1989). Interplanetary Dust Particles Collected in the Stratosphere: Observations of Atmospheric Heating and Constraints on their Inter-relationships and Sources. Icarus 82, 146-166.

Bradley, J.P., Sandford, S.A., & Walker, R.M. (1988). Interplanetary dust particles. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (Ch. 11), ed. J. Kerridge, Univ. Arizona Press: Tucson, 861-895.

Krishna Swamy, K.S., Sandford, S.A., Allamandola, L.J., Witteborn, F.C., & Bregman, J.D. (1988). A multicomponent model of the infrared emission from Comet Halley. Icarus 75, 351-370.

Sandford, S.A. (1988). The spectral properties of collected interplanetary dust particles. In Dust in the Universe, eds. M. E. Bailey & D. A. Williams, (Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge), pp. 193-198.

Allamandola, L.J., Sandford, S.A., & Wopenka, B. (1987). Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and carbon in interplanetary dust particles and meteorites. Science 237, 56-59.

Bregman, J. D., Campins, H., Witteborn, F. C., Wooden, D., Rank, D. M., Allamandola, L. J., Cohen, M., & Tielens, A.G.G.M. (1987). Airborne and Ground-Based Spectrophotometry of Comet Halley from 5-13 Micrometers. Astron. Astrophys. 187, 616-620. [PDF]

Sandford, S.A. (1987). The collection and analysis of extraterrestrial dust particles. Fundamentals of Cosmic Physics 12, 1-73.

Sandford, S. A. (1986). Acid dissolution experiments: Carbonates and the 6.8 micron bands in interplanetary dust particles. Science 231, 1540-1541.

Sandford, S.A. (1986). Solar flare track densities in interplanetary dust particles: The determination of an asteroidal versus cometary source of the zodiacal dust cloud. Icarus 68, 377-394.

Fahey, A., McKeegan, K. D., Sandford, S. A., Walker, R. M., Wopenka, B., & Zinner, E. (1985). Complementary laboratory measurements of individual interplanetary dust particles. In Properties and Interactions of Interplanetary Dust, (R.H. Giese & P. Lamy, eds), D. Reidel Pub. Co., 149-155.

Sandford, S. A. (1985). 1984-1985 ANSMET season. Eos 66, 1199.

Sandford, S. A. (1985). Laboratory infrared transmission spectra from 2.5 to 25 microns of individual interplanetary dust particles. Ph.D. thesis in Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Sandford, S. A., & Walker, R. M. (1985). Laboratory infrared transmission spectra of individual interplanetary dust particles from 2.5 to 25 microns. Astrophys. J. 291, 838-851. [PDF]

Sandford, S. A. (1984). Infrared transmission spectra from 2.5 to 25 microns of various meteorite classes. Icarus 60, 115-126.

Fraundorf, P., McKeegan, K. D., Sandford, S. A., Swan, P., & Walker, R. M. (1982). An inventory of particles from stratospheric collectors: Extraterrestrial and otherwise. J. Geophys. Res. 87, A403-A408.