Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Thomas, Paul J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hicks, Roland Dean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chyba, Christopher F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McKay, Christopher P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Σειρά: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Organic chemistry.; Geophysics.; Geobiology.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Organic Chemistry.; Biogeosciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, this second edition revisits the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. Recent analyses of Antarctic micrometeorites and ancient rocks in Australia...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life
• The Origin of the Atmosphere and of the Oceans
• Cometary Micrometeorites in Planetology, Exobiology, and Early Climatology
• Macromolecules: From Star-Forming Regions to Comets to the Origins of Life
• Impact Delivery of Prebiotic Organic Matter to Planetary Surfaces
• Comets and Prebiotic Organic Molecules on Early Earth
• Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life
• Extraterrestrial Impact Episodes and Archaean to Early Proterozoic (3.8–2.4 Ga) Habitats of Life
• The Contemporary Hazard of Comet Impacts
• The Conditions for Liquid Water in Cometary Nuclei
• Spacecraft Missions to Comets
• Interstellar and Cometary Dust in Relation to the Origin of Life.