Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins - Maurette, M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Staging the Cosmic Theater -- Solar System Bodies and "Primitiveness" -- The Power of Wetherill's Friend, Jupiter -- The Earth-Moon System in a Gigantic Cosmic "Firing" Range -- A Microscopic Suspect for the Formation of the Earth's Atmosphere -- "Primitive" Extraterrestrial Matter on the Earth -- The Space Collector "Earth" -- Classification of Meteorites and Micrometeorites -- The Major Contribution of Micrometeorites to the Delivery of Hydrous-Carbonaceous Material to the Earth -- Formation of the Post-Lunar Earth's Atmosphere -- The Inadequacy of Previous Scenarios -- A Prime Suspect for the Formation of the Atmosphere -- Formation of the Post-lunar Atmosphere -- The Mysterious Fate of Early Micrometeoritic Oxygen -- Exobiology with Unmelted Micrometeorites -- The 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 Conjuncture -- Micrometeoritic Neon on the Earth -- The 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 -- The "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 -- The Enigmatic Differences between Stratospheric and Antarctic Micrometeorites -- The World of Hidden Biases: From Collection to Sample Processing -- Stardust Attacks in Bob Laboratory for Space Sciences -- Challenges Still to Be Appropriately Addressed -- Science and Fiction -- Summary -- Epilogue: The Birth of "Micrometeoritics".
Keywords: Geobiology; Planetology; Atmospheric sciences; Geophysics; Space sciences; Astrobiology; Biogeosciences; Planetology; Atmospheric Sciences; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Astrobiology