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.
Subjects:
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."