Modeling of Liquid Water on CM Meteorite Parent Bodies and Implications for Amino Acid Racemization

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 369-381

  Cohen, Barbara A ^a   Coker, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Meteorites; Prebiotic chemistry; Prebiotic environments; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000681378     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6329     Document Type: Article

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