Survivability of bacteria in hypervelocity impact

Icarus

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 545-547

  Burchell, Mark J ^a   Mann, Jo ^a   Bunch, Alan W ^a   Brandão, Pedro F B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Impact processes; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035735436     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6738     Document Type: Article

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