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| Other authors / contributors: | Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 1939-
Napier, Bill.
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| ISBN: | 9789812814005
9812814000
9789812566355
981256635X
1282760262
9781282760264
9786612760266
6612760265
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition. However the case that comets may have contributed at least the complex organic building blocks of life has become very strong, and mechanisms have now been identified whereby comets may incubate and transfer microbial life from one cosmic habitat to another in the Galaxy. The latter process cometary panspermia was pioneered by the late Sir Fred Hoyle and one of the present authors in the early 1980'
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| Other form: | Print version: Wickramasinghe, Janaki. Comets and the origin of life. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010 9789812566355
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| Standard no.: | 9786612760266
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