Planetary habitability: Is Earth commonplace in the Milky Way?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 416-426

  Franck, S ^a   Block, A ^a   Bloh, W ^a   Bounama, C ^a   Garrido, I ^a   Schellnhuber, H J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; MARS; PLANET; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; COSMOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; REVIEW; TIME; WEATHER;

ASTRONOMY; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENT; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; PLANETS;

EID: 0034750063     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140100257     Document Type: Review

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