Looking for the Biotic Traces in Extraterrestrial Material 10.5 Ices of the Moon and Proposal of Earth-Induced Wet Panspermia in the Solar System 10.6 Implications for Other Planets of the Inner Solar System? 10.7 Conclusions References 11 There Were Plenty of Day/Night Cycles That Could Have Accelerated an Origin of Life on Earth, Without Requiring Panspermia Acknowledgement References 12 Micrometeoroids as Carriers of Organics: Modeling of the Atmospheric Entry and Chemical Decomposition of Sub-Millimeter Grains 12.1 Micrometeorites and the Search for Life 12.2 White Soft Minerals 12.3 Atmospheric Entry Model 12.4 Results 12.5 The Role of Primordial Atmospheres 12.6 Conclusions References 13 Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems: Role of Planetesimals 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Planetesimal Formation and Evolution 13.3 Transporting Mechanism in Later Stages of Planetary System Evolution 13.4 Conclusion Acknowledgements References
8 Part IV FURTHER PROSPECTS 14 A Survey of Solar System and Galactic Objects With Pristine Surfaces That Record History and Perhaps Panspermia, With a Plan for Exploration 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Recording Properties 14.3 Pristine Potential of Solar System Bodies 14.4 Prospects and Conclusions Acknowledgements References 15 The Panspermia Publications of Sir Fred Hoyle Acknowledgements References
9 Index
Guide
1 Cover
5 Preface
7 Index
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 A symbolic representation of the feedback created by directed pansper...
2 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Sketch of the levels of influences of matter and their inter-relation...
3 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Author (left) with colleagues in the class 100,000 cleanroom at the M...Figure 5.2 Left: The very first photograph that Neil Armstrong took on the Moon:...Figure 5.3 Left: Plotted orbits of all known inner Solar System asteroids as of ...Figure 5.4 Left: Present-time factors for habitability of terrestrial planets. P...
4 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Location map of the Danakil Depression and the Dallol geothermal area...Figure 6.2 Landsat 8 pan-sharpened RGB-321 color composite image (scene ID: LC81...Figure 6.3 (a and b) Photographs of the Assale salt plain showing irregular poly...Figure 6.4 Panoramic view (from southwest) of the Black Mountain. Note the whiti...Figure 6.5 (a) Panoramic view of a field of sulfur and halite deposits associate...Figure 6.6 Photographs of the mounds at the Dallol Hot Springs site. (a) Field o...Figure 6.7 Photographs of terrace morphologies at the Dallol Hot Springs site. (...Figure 6.8 (a) Active mushroom-like structures (field of view ca. 4 m). Reproduc...Figure 6.9 (a) White halite salt rims (a few mm in thickness) forms as a result ...
5 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (labeled b through h), compared to Mercury,...Figure 7.2 Breakthrough Starshot Lightsail nanocraft. (a). StarChip—a centimeter...Figure 7.3 Artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1). Discovered on October ...
6 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Total number of captured planetesimals as a function of their size. S...
7 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Planet mean density ρp as a function of galactocentric distance Rgc. ...Figure 9.2 Number of captured objects as a function of their velocities. Higher ...Figure 9.3 Theoretical spatial density of rocky planets (nterr) as a function of...Figure 9.4 Spacetime topography of life-bearing planets for a case with the incl...
8 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Estimates for the date of LUCA seem to have settled down. From Table...
9 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Thermal curves of different entry scenarios related to a MgCO3 micro...Figure 12.2 Magnesium carbonate fraction occurrences at different altitudes.Figure