书目名称 | Comets and the Origin of Life |
副标题 | Proceedings of the F |
编辑 | Cyril Ponnamperuma |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/231/230144/230144.mp4 |
丛书名称 | Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia |
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描述 | The return of Halley‘s Cornet in 1986 has generated much ex citement in the scientific community with preparations already afoot for an International Cornet Watch and a cornet launch by the European Space Community, the Japanese and Soviet Space Scientists. The meet ing held at the University of Maryland in October 1980 was primarily stimulated by the preparations for further study of this cornet and by one of the most important unanswered questions related to comets, name ly, whether they may have made a eontribution to the origin of life on earth. Our un"derstanding of the role of comets in the origin of life must necessarily come from our studies of the astronomy and the chem istry of comets. Some clues to the processes which led to the for mation of organic molecules and eventually to the appearance of life have come from these studies of comets, perhaps the most ancient of all objects in our solar system. Whether there is, however, a biology of comets still remains to be seen, although some claims have been made that perhaps comets might themselves provide an environment for even the beginnings of life. Scientists with the latest available information on comets and differ |
出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1981 |
关键词 | Europe; atmosphere; biology; chemistry; environment; evolution; formation; isotope; solar system |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8528-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-009-8530-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-8528-5 |
copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981 |