Book Details

Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life

Publication year: 2006

: 978-3-540-33088-2

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Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, this second edition revisits the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. Recent analyses of Antarctic micrometeorites and ancient rocks in Australia and South Africa, the continuing progress in discovering complex organic macromolecules in comets, protostars and interstellar clouds, new insights into organic synthesis in comets, and numerical simulations of comet impacts on the Earth and other members of the solar system yield a spectacular wealth of new results.


: Earth and Environmental Science, Habitat, Planet, Solar System, astrobiology, biology, chemistry, evolution, exobiology, macromolecules, oceans, organic chemistry, planetology, solar, stellar, the origin