Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992elco.reptq....a&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, 1 Apr. - 31 Dec. 1991 Eloret Corp., Sunnyvale, CA.
Physics
Amino Acids, Chemical Evolution, Comets, Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, Sea Water, Atmospheric Entry, Clays, Electric Corona, Fossils, Geochronology, Oceans, Seas, Sinks, Tides
Scientific paper
It is proposed that the AIB amino acid at the K/T boundary were synthesized during entry of a comet. However, whether they were synthesized or supplied directly from space, the concentration of amino acids in the shallow K/T sea would have been about 10-7 M. It is probable that clays were the dominant sinks for the amino acids in the K/T sea and in the primordial ocean. Because clay removed amino acids from sea water quickly, the amino acid contribution must be studied from individual comets in order to evaluate the effectiveness of comets for chemical evolution. Such an evaluation shows that comets would have produced amino acid concentration higher than equilibrium concentrations of amino acid from corona discharge at all times preceding the age of the oldest fossils. The perferred sites for chemical evolution of cometary amino acids are in cloud drops and tide pools where the concentration of amino acids would have been the highest. Life could have originated at the surface even during periods of intense bombardment of the earth before 3.8 billion years ago.
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