Micrometeorites and the mysteries of our origins /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2006]
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| Series: | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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."