Bacterial Spores Survive Simulated Meteorite Impact

Icarus

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 285-290

  Horneck, G ^a   Stoffler D ^b   Eschweiler, U ^a   Hornemann, U ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SPEED DYNAMICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Impact processes; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001142589     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6543     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Arrhenius S. Die Verbreitung des Lebens im Weltenraum. Die Umschau. 7:1903;481-485.
2. Baltschukat K., Horneck G. Responses to accelerated heavy ions of spores of Bacillus subtilis of different repair capacity. Radiat. Environ. Biophys. 30:1991;87-103.
3. Bischoff A., Stöffler D. Shock metamorphism as a fundamental process in the evolution of planetary bodies: Information from meteorites. Europ. J. Mineral. 4:1992;707-755.
4. Cano R. J., Borucki M. K. Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber. Science. 268:1995;1060-1064.
5. Eugster O., Weigel A., Polnau E. Ejection times of martian meteorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 61:1997;2749-2757.
6. Horneck G. Responses of Bacillus subtilis spores to space environment: Results from experiments in space. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere. 23:1993;37-52.
7. Horneck G. Exobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life within the context of cosmic evoultion: A review. Planet. Space Sci. 43:1995;189-217.
8. Horneck, G.1999. Astrobiology studies of microbes in simulated interplanetary space. In Laboratory Astrophysics and Space ResearchP. Ehrenfreund, C. Krafft, H. Kochan, V. Pirronello, Eds., pp. 667-685. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
9. Horneck G., Bücker H., Reitz G., Requardt H., Dose K., Martens K. D., Mennigmann H. D., Weber P. Microorganisms in the space environment. Science. 225:1984;226-228.
10. Horneck G., Bücker H., Reitz G. Long-term survival of bacterial spores in space. Adv. Space Res. 14:1994;(10)41-(10)45.
11. Horneck G., Eschweiler U., Reitz G., Wehner J., Willimek R., Strauch K. Biological responses to space: Results of the experiment 'Exobiological Unit' of ERA on EURECA I. Adv. Space Res. 16:1995;(8)105-(8)118.
12. Langenhorst F., Deutsch A. Shock experiments on preheated α- and β-quartz: I. Optical and density data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 125:1994;40-420.
13. Lindberg C., Horneck G. Action spectra for survival and spore photoproduct formation of Bacillus subtilis irradiated with short wavelength (200-300 nm) UV at atmospheric pressure and in vivo. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B Biol. 11:1991;69-80.
14. Mancinelli, R. L., M. R. White, and L. J. Rothschild1998. Biopan survival I: Exposure of the osmophiles Synechococcus sp. (Nageli) and Haloarcula sp. to the space environment. Adv. Space Res.22, (3)327-(3)334.
15. Mastrapa, R. M. F, H. Glanzberg, J. N. Head, H. J. Melosh, and, W. L. Nicholson, 2000, Survival of Bacillus subtilis spores and Deinococcus radiodurans cells exposed to the extreme acceleration and shock predicted during planetary ejection (abstract). Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 31st, Houston, Texas.
16. McKay D. S., Gibson E. K. Jr., Thomas-Keprta K. L., Vali H., Romanek C. S., Clemett S. J., Chillier X. D. F., Maechling C. R., Zare R. N. Search for life on Mars: Possible relic biogenic activity in martian meteorite ALH84001. Science. 273:1996;924-930.
17. McSween H. Y. Jr. What we have learned about Mars from SNC meteorites. Metoritics. 29:1994;757-779.
18. Melosh H. J. Ejection of rock fragments from planetary bodies. Geology. 13:1985;144-148.
19. Melosh H. J. The rocky road to Panspermia. Nature. 332:1988;687-688.
20. Melosh H. J. Impact Cratering-A Geologic Process. 1989.
21. Mileikowsky C., Cucinotta F. A., Wilson J. W., Gladman B., Horneck G., Lindegren L., Melosh H. J., Rickman H., Valtonen M., Zheng J. Q. Natural transfer of viable microbes in space. Icarus. 145:2000;391-427.
22. Müller W. F., Hornemann U. Shock induced planar deformation structures in experimentally shock loaded olivines and in olivines from chondritic meteorites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 7:1969;251-264.
23. Nyquist L. E., Borg L. E., Shih C.- Y. The Shergottite age paradox and the relative probabilities for martian meteorites of different age. J. Geophys. Res. 103:1998;31-31.
24. Okuba, S., and T. Yanagida1968. Isolation of a suppressor mutant of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 95, 1187-1188.
25. Ostertag R. Shock experiments on feldspar crystals. J. Geophys. Res. 88:1983;B364-B376.
26. Ostertag R., Stöffler D., Bischoff A., Palme H., Schultz L., Spettel B., Weber H., Weckwerth G., Wänke H. Lunar meteorite Yamato-791197: Petrography, shock history, and chemical composition. Mem. Natl. Inst. Polar. Res. (Special Issue, Proc. 10th Symp. Antarctic Meteorites). 41:1986;17-44.
27. Raikes S. A., Ahrens T. J. Post-shock temperatures in minerals. J. R. Astron. Soc. 58:1979;717-747.
28. Stöffler D. Maskelynite confirmed as diaplectic glass: Indication for peak shock pressures below 45 GPa in all martian meteorites (abstract). Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 31st. 2000.
29. Stöffler D., Langenhorst F. Shock metamorphism of quartz in nature and experiment: I. Basic observation and theory. Meteoritics. 29:1994;155-181.
30. Stöffler D., Ostertag R., Jammes C., Pfannschmidt G., Sen Gupta P. R., Simon S. B., Papike J. J., Beauchamp R. M. Shock metamorphism and petrography of the Shergotty achondrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 50:1986;889-903.
31. Weber P., Greenberg J. M. Can spores survive in interstellar space? Nature. 316:1985;403-407.
32. Wackerle J. Shock wave compression of quartz. J. Appl. Phys. 33:1962;922-937.