Natural transfer of viable microbes in space from planets in extra-solar systems to a planet in our solar system and vice versa

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 690, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 210-215

  Valtonen, Mauri ^a   Nurmi, Pasi ^a   Zheng, Jia Qing ^a   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b   Wilson, John W ^c   Horneck, Gerda ^d   Lindegren, Lennart ^e   Melosh, Jay ^f   Rickman, Hans ^g   Mileikowsky, Curt ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Meteors, meteoroids; Planetary systems; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549160175     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/210     Document Type: Article

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