Origin and evolution of prebiotic organic matter as inferred from the Tagish Lake meteorite

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6035, 2011, Pages 1304-1307

  Herd, Christopher D K ^a   Blinova, Alexandra ^a   Simkus, Danielle N ^a   Huang, Yongsong ^b   Tarozo, Rafael ^b   Alexander, Conel M O'D ^c   Gyngard, Frank ^c   Nittler, Larry R ^c   Cody, George D ^c   Fogel, Marilyn L ^c   Kebukawa, Yoko ^c   Kilcoyne, A L David ^d   Hilts, Robert W ^e   Slater, Greg F ^f   Glavin, Daniel P ^g   Dworkin, Jason P ^g   Callahan, Michael P ^g   Elsila, Jamie E ^g   De Gregorio, Bradley T ^h,i   Stroud, Rhonda M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; METEORITE; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PETROLOGY;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; LAKE; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANADA; TAGISH LAKE;

EID: 79958746238     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1203290     Document Type: Article

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