Bacterial Spores Survive Hypervelocity Launch by Spallation: Implications for Lithopanspermia
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FOR LITHOPANSPERMIA. W. L. Nicholson, P. Fajardo-Cavazos, F. Langenhorst, and H. J. Melosh, University of Florida, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Space Life Sciences Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899; [email protected] Institut für Geowissenschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Burgweg 11, D-07749 Jena, Germany; [email protected] Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, [email protected] Bayriches GeoInstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006