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Comets and the Connection to Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

K. J. Meech  and
J. M. Bauer
K. J. Meech
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822
J. M. Bauer
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822

Abstract

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We present a summary of ground-based work being done to gain an understanding of primitive comet, Centaur and Kuiper belt object compositions. We are seeing a diversity of compositions in outer solar system small bodies with respect to the presence of water and organics which may reflect both primordial differences and evolutionary processes.

Type
Origins and Evolution of Life
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 263 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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