Micrometeorites and the Mysteries of Our Origins (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Solar System Bodies and “Primitiveness”....Pages 3-9
The Power of Wetherill’s Friend, Jupiter....Pages 10-11
The Earth–Moon System in a Gigantic Cosmic “Firing” Range....Pages 12-22
A Microscopic Suspect for the Formation of the Earth’s Atmosphere....Pages 23-28
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The Space Collector “Earth”....Pages 31-53
Classification of Meteorites and Micrometeorites....Pages 54-71
The Major Contribution of Micrometeorites to the Delivery of Hydrous–Carbonaceous Material to the Earth....Pages 72-77
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The Inadequacy of Previous Scenarios....Pages 81-85
A Prime Suspect for the Formation of the Atmosphere....Pages 86-92
Formation of the Post-lunar Atmosphere....Pages 93-102
The Mysterious Fate of Early Micrometeoritic Oxygen....Pages 103-104
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The Birth of Life on the Early Earth....Pages 107-111
Microscopic Chondritic Chemical Reactors....Pages 112-124
Radiation Reprocessing of Organics by Energetic Ions in Space....Pages 125-131
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First Hints....Pages 135-135
Micrometeorite and Minimeteorite Ashes in Prebiotic Chemistry....Pages 136-151
Micrometeorites in the Post-lunar Greenhouse Effect....Pages 152-155
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Micrometeoritic Iridium in the Earth’s Mantle with the Hartmann Conjuncture....Pages 159-160
Micrometeoritic Neon on the Earth....Pages 161-178
The Micrometeoritic Purity of the Atmosphere and Early Earth’s Processes....Pages 179-182
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Extrapolation of EMMA to the Moon and Mars....Pages 183-196
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The “Hunt” for Micrometeorites Parent Bodies....Pages 199-210
No Consensus About the Early History of the Lunar Impact Flux....Pages 211-231
Micrometeorites and Early Solar System Processes....Pages 232-236
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Relationships with CM-type Chondrites....Pages 239-245
The Enigmatic Differences between Stratospheric and Antarctic Micrometeorites....Pages 246-251
The World of Hidden Biases: From Collection to Sample Processing....Pages 252-258
Stardust Attacks in Bob Laboratory for Space Sciences....Pages 259-265
Challenges Still to Be Appropriately Addressed....Pages 266-279
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Summary....Pages 283-289
Epilogue: The Birth of “Micrometeoritics”....Pages 290-297
Back Matter....Pages 298-330