Meteors: A delivery mechanism of organic matter to the early earth

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 82-83, Issue , 1998, Pages 57-70

  Jenniskens, Peter ^a   Wilson, Mike A ^a   Packan, Dennis ^b   Laux, Christophe O ^b   Krüger, Charles H ^b   Boyd, Iain D ^c   Popova, Olga P ^d   Fonda, Mark ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ablation; Astrobiology; Exobiology; Meteoroids; Meteors; Origin of life

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; EXOBIOLOGY; METEORITE; ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 0034538634     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1017017728166     Document Type: Article

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