Astronomical Origins of Life

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Panspermia 2000
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   Chapter 2 On a Possibly Fundamental Principle in Chemistry as Viewed in a Cosmogonic Context
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   Chapter 3 Biological Activity in the Early Solar System in its Outer Regions
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   Chapter 4 An Object within a Particle of Extraterrestrial Origin Compared with an Object of Presumed Terrestrial Origin
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   Chapter 5 The Viability with Respect to Temperature of Micro-Organisms Incident on the Earth’s Atmosphere
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   Chapter 6 A Laboratory Experiment with Relevance to the Survival of Micro-Organisms Entering a Planetary Atmosphere
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   Chapter 7 Biological Evolution
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   Chapter 8 Metallic Particles in Astronomy
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    Chapter 9 The Universe and Life: Deductions from the Weak Anthropic Principle
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    Chapter 10 Miller-Urey Synthesis in the Nuclei of Galaxies
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    Chapter 11 Formaldehyde Polymers in Interstellar Space
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    Chapter 12 Formaldehyde Polymers in Comets
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    Chapter 13 Composition of Cometary Dust: The Case Against Silicates
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    Chapter 14 Primitive Grain Clumps and Organic Compounds in Carbonaceous Chondrites
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    Chapter 15 Spectroscopic Evidence for Interstellar Grain Clumps in Meteoritic Inclusions
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    Chapter 16 Calculations of Infrared Fluxes from Galactic Sources for a Polysaccharide Grain Model
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    Chapter 17 Infrared Spectroscopy of Micro-Organisms Near 3.4 μm in Relation to Geology and Astronomy
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    Chapter 18 Infrared Spectroscopy over the 2.9–3.9 μm Waveband in Biochemistry and Astronomy
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    Chapter 19 2.8–3.6 μm Spectra of Micro-Organisms with Varying H 2 O Ice-Content
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    Chapter 20 Organo-Siliceous Biomolecules and the Infrared Spectrum of the Trapezium Nebula
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    Chapter 21 The Spectroscopic Identification of Interstellar Grains
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    Chapter 22 The Availability of Phosphorus in the Bacterial Model of the Interstellar Grains
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    Chapter 23 Diatoms on Earth, Comets, Europa and in Interstellar Space
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    Chapter 24 A Diatom Model of Dust in the Trapezium Nebula
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    Chapter 25 Infrared Evidence for Panspermia: An Update
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    Chapter 26 On the Nature of Interstellar Grains
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    Chapter 27 A Model for Interstellar Extinction
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    Chapter 28 The Ultraviolet Absorbance of Presumably Interstellar Bacteria and Related Matters
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    Chapter 29 The Case Against Graphite Particles in Interstellar Space
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    Chapter 30 Organic Molecules in Interstellar Dust: A Possible Spectral Signature at λ2200 Å?
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    Chapter 31 Identification of the λ2200 Å Interstellar Absorption Feature
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    Chapter 32 A Unified Model for the 3.28 μ Emission and the 2200 Å Interstellar Extinction Feature
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    Chapter 33 Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Very Small Interstellar Grains
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    Chapter 34 An Integrated 2.5-12.5 μm Emission Spectrum of Naturally-Occurring Aromatic Molecules
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    Chapter 35 Biofluorescence and the Extended Red Emission in Astrophysical Sources
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    Chapter 36 Comets, Ice Ages, and Ecological Catastrophes
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    Chapter 37 Comets — A Vehicle for Panspermia
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    Chapter 38 Some Predictions on the Nature of Comet Halley
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    Chapter 39 A Model of the 2-4 μm Spectrum of Comet Halley
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    Chapter 40 Modelling the 5–30 μm Spectrum of Comet Halley
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    Chapter 41 Very Small Dust Particles (VSDP’S) in Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
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    Chapter 42 The Astonishing Redness of Kuiper-Belt Objects
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    Chapter 43 Eruptions of Comet Hale-Bopp at 6.5 AU
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    Chapter 44 Infrared Radiation from Comet Hale-Bopp