Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1991
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Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Volume 21, Issue 5-6, pp. 267-277
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
3
Scientific paper
Thirty years ago it was suggested that comets impacting on the primitive Earth may have represented a significant source of terrestrial volatiles, including some important precursors for prebiotic synthesis (Oró, 1961,Nature 190: 389). This possibility is strongly supported not only by models of the collisional history of the early Earth, but also by astronomical evidence that suggests that frequent collisions of comet-like bodies from the circumstellar disk around the starβ Pictoris are taking place. Although a significant fraction of the complex organic compounds that appear to be present in cometary nuclei were probably destroyed during impact, it is argued that cometary collisions with the primitive Earth represented an important source of both free-energy and volatiles, and may have created transient, gaseous environments in which prebiotic synthesis may have taken place.
Lazcano Antoni
Mills T.
Oro Judit
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