Risks threatening viable transfer of microbes between bodies in our solar system

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1107-1115

  Mileikowsky, Curt ^a,f   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b   Wilson, John W ^c   Gladman, Brett ^g   Horneck, Gerda ^d   Lindegren, Lennart ^g   Melosh, Jay ^e   Rickman, Hans ^g   Valtonen, Mauri ^g   Zheng, J Q ^g  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f NONE   (Switzerland)

^g NONE

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EID: 0000601637     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(00)00085-4     Document Type: Article

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