Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Colección: | Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics,
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34335-0 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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”.