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Comets and the origin of life /
The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life...
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Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wickramasinghe, Janaki. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Comets and the origin of life / |c Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe, William Napier. |
| 260 | |a Hackensack, NJ : |b World Scientific, |c ©2010. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Overview -- Cosmic dust and life -- The origin of comets -- Comets in the galactic environment -- Dark comets: a link to panspermia -- Expulsion of microbes from the solar system -- Liquid water in comets -- Origin of life -- Expanding horizons of life. | |
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| 520 | |a The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life has become very strong, and mechanisms have now been identified whereby comets may incubate and transfer microbial life from one cosmic habitat to another in the Galaxy. The latter process cometary panspermia was pioneered by the late Sir Fred Hoyle and one of the present authors in the early 1980' | ||
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