An evolutionary connection between interstellar ices and IDPs? Clues from mass spectroscopy measurements of laboratory simulations

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-71

  Dworkin, Jason P ^a   Gillette, J Seb ^b   Bernstein, Max P ^c,d   Sandford, Scott A ^c   Allamandola, Louis J ^c   Elsila, Jamie E ^b   McGlothlin, Donald Ryan ^d   Zare, Richard N ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); MASS SPECTROMETERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC MINERALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ICE ANALOGS; INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES (IDP);

PHOTOLYSIS;

EXOBIOLOGY; ICE; INTERPLANETARY DUST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHOTOLYSIS;

EID: 1842556292     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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