Prebiotic chiral molecules created in interstellar dust and preserved in comets, comet dust and meteorites: An exogenous source of life's origins

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3111, Issue , 1997, Pages 226-237

  Mayo Greenberg, J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; GRAIN GROWTH; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

INTERSTELLAR DUST;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0031301130     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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