Micrometeorites and the mysteries of our origins /
This book relates an attempt to decrypt the still-obscure first billion years of history of the young Earth, during a cataclysmic period during which our planet was heavily bombarded by bodies ranging in size from that of Mars to 0.1 mm sized tiny micrometeorites. It was thus found that micrometeori...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
c2006
Berlin ; New York : ©2006 |
| Series: | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The Space Collector "Earth"
- Classification of Meteorites and Micrometeorites
- The Major Contribution of Micrometeorites to the Delivery of Hydrous-Carbonaceous Material to the Earth
- 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
- The Birth of Life on the Early Earth
- Microscopic Chondritic Chemical Reactors
- Radiation Reprocessing of Organics / Energetic Ions in Space
- First Hints
- Micrometeorite and Minimeteorite Ashes in Prebiotic Chemistry
- Micrometeorites in the Post-lunar Greenhouse Effect
- 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
- The "Hunt" for Micrometeorites Parent Bodies
- No Consensus About the Early History of the Lunar Impact Flux
- Micrometeorites and Early Solar System Processes
- 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
- Summary
- Epilogue: The Birth of "Micrometeoritics."
- 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
- The Space Collector "Earth"
- Classification of Meteorites and Micrometeorites
- The Major Contribution of Micrometeorites to the Delivery of Hydrous-Carbonaceous Material to the Earth
- 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
- The Birth of Life on the Early Earth
- Microscopic Chondritic Chemical Reactors
- Radiation Reprocessing of Organics / Energetic Ions in Space
- First Hints
- Micrometeorite and Minimeteorite Ashes in Prebiotic Chemistry
- Micrometeorites in the Post-lunar Greenhouse Effect
- 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
- The "Hunt" for Micrometeorites Parent Bodies
- No Consensus About the Early History of the Lunar Impact Flux
- Micrometeorites and Early Solar System Processes
- 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
- Summary
- Epilogue: The Birth of "Micrometeoritics"