Micrometeorites and the mysteries of our origins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maurette, Michel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2006]
Series:Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics.
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MARC

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505 0 |a Staging the cosmic theater. Solar system bodies and "primitiveness" -- Power of Wetherill's friend, Jupiter -- Earth-moon system in a gigantic cosmic "firing" range -- Mmicroscopic suspect for the formation of the Earth's atmosphere -- "Primitive" extraterrestrial matter on the Earth. Space collector "Earth" -- Classification of meteorites and micrometeorites -- Major contribution of micrometeorites to the delivery of hydrous-carbonaceous material to the Earth -- Formation of the post-lunar Earth's atmosphere. Inadequacy of previous scenarios -- Prime suspect for the formation of the atmosphere -- Formation of the post-lunar atmosphere -- Mysterious fate of early micrometeoritic oxygen -- Exobiology with unmelted micrometeorites. Birth of life on the early Earth -- Microscopic chondritic chemical reactors -- Radiation reprocessing of organics by energetic ions in space -- 
505 0 |a Micrometeorite ashes in exobiology and early climatology. First hints -- Micrometeorite and minimeteorite ashes in prebiotic chemistry -- Micrometeorites in the post-lunar greenhouse effect -- Micrometeorites in comparative planetology. Micrometeoritic iridium in the Earth's mantle with the Hartmann's conjuncture -- Micrometeoritic neon on the Earth -- Micrometeoritic purity of the atmosphere and early Earth's processes -- Extrapolation of EMMA to the moon and Mars -- Parent bodies of micrometeorites and early solar system processes. "Hunt" for micrometeorites' parent bodies -- No consensus about the early history of the lunar impact flux -- Micrometeorites and early solar system processes -- Challenges ahead. Relationships with CM-type chondrites -- Enigmatic differences between stratospheric and Antarctic micrometeorites -- World of hidden biases: from collection to sample processing -- Stardust attacks in Bob Laboratory for Space Sciences -- Challenges still to be appropriately addressed -- Birth of "micrometeoritics." 
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