Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991oleb...21..317o&link_type=abstract
Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Volume 21, Issue 5-6, pp. 317-338
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Amino acids yields for previously published shock tube experiments are used with minimum Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) impactor mass and comet composition to predict AIB amino acid K/T boundary sediment column density. The inferred initial concentration of all amino acids in the K/T sea and in similar primordial seas just after 10 km comet impacts would have been at least 10-7 M. However, sinks for amino acids must also be considered in calculating amino acid concentrations after comet impacts and in assessing the contribution of comets to the origin of life. The changing concentration of cometary amino acids due to ultraviolet light is compared with the equilibrium concentration of amino acids produced in the sea from corona discharge in the atmosphere, deposition in water, and degradation by ultraviolet light. Comets could have been more important than endogenous agents for initial evolution of amino acids. Sites favorable for chemical evolution of amino acids are examined and it is concluded that chemical evolution could have occurred at or above the surface even during periods of intense bombardment of Earth before 3.8 billion years ago.
Aggarwal Hans
Oberbeck Verne R.
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