Astrobiology: Future Perspectives
Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever it might exist in the Universe. The current view of the origin of life on Earth is that it is strongly connected to the origin and ev
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 305
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitá di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
ASTROBIOLOGY: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Edited by PASCALE EHRENFREUND Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
WILLIAM IRVINE University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.
TOBY OWEN University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.
LUANN BECKER University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
JEN BLANK Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, U.S.A.
JOHN BRUCATO Naples Observatory, Naples, Italy
LUIGI COLANGELI Naples Observatory, Naples, Italy
SYLVIE DERENNE ENS de Chimie de Paris, Paris, France
ANNE DUTREY Bordeaux Observatory, Floirac, France
DIDIER DESPOIS Bordeaux Observatory, Floirac, France
ANTONIO LAZCANO UNAM, México D.F., México
and
FRANCOIS ROBERT LEME, Paris, France
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
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Chapter 1 The Synthesis of the Elements and the Formation of Stars M. Spaans
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Chapter 2 Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium T.J. Millar Chapter 3 Chemistry of Protoplanetary Disks
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Relation to Primitive Solar
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