期刊全称 | Accretion of Extraterrestrial Matter Throughout Earth’s History | 影响因子2023 | Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink,Birger Schmitz | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | Every year Earth is bombarded with about 40,000 tons ofextraterrestrial material. This includes microscopic cosmic dustparticles shed by comets and asteroids in outer space, meteorites, aswell as large comets and asteroids that have led to catastrophicevents in the geologic past. Originally considered only a curiosity,extraterrestrial matter found on Earth provides the only samples wehave from comets, asteroids and other planets. Only recently mankindhas started to actively collect extraterrestrial matter in space(Apollo program, Stardust mission) rather than to wait for itsdelivery to Earth. Still, most of our knowledge of the origin andevolution of our solar system is based on careful studies ofmeteorites, cosmic dust, and traces of large impact events in thegeologic record such as the mass extinction that terminated theCretaceous Period and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs..This book summarizes our current knowledge of the properties, origin,orbital evolution and accretion mechanism of extraterrestrial matteraccreted on Earth and sheds light on accretion processes and fluxes inthe geologic past. The chapters in the first part of the book arearranged in order to follow extr | Pindex | Book 2001 |
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