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Martin A. Cordiner

NASA Goddard astrochemist; led JWST program 5094 and the CO2 and isotope results

Martin A. Cordiner is a NASA Goddard astrochemist, and appears in the record of 3I/ATLAS as NASA Goddard astrochemist; led JWST program 5094 and the CO2 and isotope results.

Three events on the site involve Cordiner, from JWST finds a coma dominated by carbon dioxide (6 Aug 2025) to Nature: older than the Sun, from a cold birthplace (22 Jun 2026).

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3I/ATLAS

NASA Goddard astrochemist; led JWST program 5094 and the CO2 and isotope results · 3 events · 2 sources

The mystery

What Martin A. Cordiner did 3

6 Aug 2025JWST finds a coma dominated by carbon dioxide

with NASA

22 Dec 2025JWST measures the deuterium and carbon isotopes

with Nathan X. Roth · NASA

22 Jun 2026Nature: older than the Sun, from a cold birthplace

with NASA · European Space Agency

Worked with 1

Nathan X. Roth

3I/ATLAS

Organisations 2

NASA

ORG

European Space Agency

ORG

Sources 3

JWST detection of a carbon dioxide dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

SRC

Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

SRC

JWST program 5094: Composition of an Interstellar Object

Primary

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Martin A. Cordiner [Person FIG0DFQ70ARS7G7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DFQ70ARS7G7

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  title     = {Martin A. Cordiner},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Person, catalog key FIG0DFQ70ARS7G7},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DFQ70ARS7G7}
}