Abstract
Surprising EMMA. The main star of this book, besides the Moon, is an obscure contamination of the young Earth that was falling from the sky. It was mostly deposited by invisible tiny cosmic dust grains that can hardly be felt between two fingers. It was neglected for a long time because its composition and the variation of its mass flux with time were not tractable. Therefore, its effects could not be predicted.
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Maurette, M. (2006). Summary. In: Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34335-0_30
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