Complex organics in laboratory simulations of interstellar/cometary ices

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 991-998

  Bernstein, M P ^a   Allamandola, L J ^a   Sandford, S A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; ICE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; PHOTOLYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

ASTRONOMY; CARBON MONOXIDE; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; ICE; METEOROIDS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOTOLYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; WATER;

EID: 0031291783     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(97)00340-2     Document Type: Article

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