Amino acid survival in large cometary impacts

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 909-918

  Pierazzo, E ^a   Chyba, C F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMET; EARLY EARTH; IMPACT;

EID: 0033382472     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01409.x     Document Type: Article

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