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Planetary and Interstellar Processes Relevant to the Origins of Life (Hardcover, Reprinted from ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF THE BIOSPHERE, 27:1-3, 1997)
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Planetary and Interstellar Processes Relevant to the Origins of Life (Hardcover, Reprinted from ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF THE BIOSPHERE, 27:1-3, 1997)
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These are exciting times for exobiology. The ubiquity of organic
molecules in interstellar clouds, comets and asteroids strongly
supports a cosmic perspective on the origin of life. Data from both
ground-based telescopes and the recently launched Infrared Space
Observatory are providing new insight into the complexity of
carbon-based chemistry beyond the Earth. Meteorites give us solid
evidence for extraterrestrial amino acids, and putative fossil
evidence for life in a 3.6 billion-year-old Martian meteorite hints
that life in our system might not be the sole prerogative of the
Earth. Giant planets have now been discovered orbiting other stars,
and although such planets seem unlikely to be habitable themselves,
their existence strongly suggests what many astronomers have long
believed - that planetary systems are commonplace. All these topics
are reviewed in this volume by active researchers. The level is
appropriate for graduate students in astronomy, biology, chemistry,
earth sciences, physics, and related disciplines. It will also
provide a valuable source of reference for active researchers in
these fields.
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