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Comets and the Connection to Life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2017
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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
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004
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