Preservation of organic matter in the STONE 6 artificial meteorite experiment

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 390-402

  Parnell, John ^a   Bowden, Stephen A ^a   Muirhead, David ^a   Blamey, Nigel ^b   Westall, Frances ^c   Demets, René ^d   Verchovsky, Sasha ^e   Brandstätter, Franz ^f   Brack, André ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Mars; Meteorites; Organic chemistry; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952005144     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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