Planetary and interstellar processes relevant to the origins of life
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.
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Commentary.- Origin of the Biologically Important Elements.- Circumstellar and Interstellar Synthesis of Organic Molecules.- Detection of Organic Matter in Interstellar Grains.- The Nature and Evolution of Interstellar Ices.- Interstellar Ices Studied with the Infrared Space Observatory.- The Search for Interstellar Glycine.- The Origin of Low Mass Stars.- Analogs of the Early Solar System.- The Early Solar System.- Physics and Chemistry of the Solar Nebula.- Chemical Evolution on Titan: Comparisons to the Prebiotic Earth.- Is Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Relevant to the Origin of Life on Earth?.- The Search for Life on Mars.- Habitable Zones Around Low Mass Stars and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
"Reprinted from Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, vol. 27, nos. 1-3 (1997)."