Editors:
- This is the only book dealing in depth with this subject
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics (ASTROBIO)
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About this book
Nine years after the publication of Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, one of the pioneering books in Astrobiology, this second edition revisits the role comets may have played in the origins and evolution of life. Recent analyses of Antarctic micrometeorites and ancient rocks in Australia and South Africa, the continuing progress in discovering complex organic macromolecules in comets, protostars and interstellar clouds, new insights into organic synthesis in comets, and numerical simulations of comet impacts on the Earth and other members of the solar system yield a spectacular wealth of new results.
This second edition is thus actually a new book. As the first edition it is intended as a comprehensive review of current research, accessible to graduate students and others new to the field. Each chapter was prepared by experts to give an overview of an aspect of the field, and carefully revised by the editors for uniformity in style and presentation.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA
Paul J. Thomas, Roland Dean Hicks
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Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, Mountain View, USA
Christopher F. Chyba
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Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Christopher P. McKay
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life
Editors: Paul J. Thomas, Roland Dean Hicks, Christopher F. Chyba, Christopher P. McKay
Series Title: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10903490
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-33086-8Published: 03 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06963-5Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-33088-2Published: 29 August 2006
Series ISSN: 1610-8957
Series E-ISSN: 1613-1851
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 346
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph
Topics: Astrobiology, Organic Chemistry, Biogeosciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)