Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium, Comets, and Meteorites: A Voyage from Dark Clouds to the Early Earth

By P. Ehrenfreund, Steven B. Charnley. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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3. J. Wahlund
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Citations in the corpus

• The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite (2012, background): “Organic molecules have been detected in the interstellar medium (e.g. Ehrenfreund and Charnley 2000; Millar 2004), comets (e.g. Crovisier et al. 2004) as well as meteorites (e.g. Botta and Bada 2002; Sephton 2004).”
• Origins of volatile elements (H, C, N, noble gases) on Earth and Mars in light of recent results from the ROSETTA cometary mission (2016, unknown): “Carbonaceous chondrites contain about 80 different amino-acids (Ehrenfreund and Charnley, 2000), with their total concentration amounting for 250 ppm (e.g., Martins et al., 2007).”
• The Photostability of Amino Acids in Space (2001, background): “Formation of amino acids in the interstellar medium (ISM) may be possible via specific gas-phase reactions in dark clouds (Ehrenfreund & Charnley 2000).”
• The Nature and Distribution of the Organic Material in Carbonaceous Chondrites and Interplanetary Dust Particles (2006, background): “…as interstellar species of up to C11 (Bell et al., 1992) and their long chains, were they formed through a synthetic pathway that did not involve CO (Ehrenfreund and Charnley, 2000) and enriched in 13C, could have sustained little parent-body/nebular C-isotopic alteration and, thereby, account for…”
• What makes a planet habitable? (2009, background): “In the so-called dark interstellar clouds, characterized by high densities (see Table 2) active chemical pathways lead to complex carbon molecules in the gas phase and solid state (Ehrenfreund and Charnley 2000).”