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The origin of life is the prerogative of primordial planets of novas

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The scientific community has been trying to explain the phenomenon of the origin of life on our planet for many years. Contemporary knowledge makes it possible to establish the logically reliable fact of the formation of the hydrothermal conditions under which this phenomenon emerged naturally following the accretion of protoplanetary matter within the single process of the development of the geographical envelope of primordial planets of novas. Similar processes preceded the appearance of biomorphic remnants in meteorites (chondrites), a parent planet’s debris that fell to the Earth. Hence, the occasional attempts to revive panspermia (the hypothesis that life on the Earth appeared because so-called living embryos had been brought to it from outer space) of the Swedish physical chemist S. Arrhenius (1859–1927) appear irrelevant.

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Lopukhin, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 10, pp. 916–921.

In Memory of Vladimir Vasil’evich Menner

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Lopukhin, A.S. The origin of life is the prerogative of primordial planets of novas. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 453–458 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615030028

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