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Amino acids and the asymmetry of life [[electronic resource] ] : caught in the act of formation / / Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan
| Amino acids and the asymmetry of life [[electronic resource] ] : caught in the act of formation / / Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan |
| Autore | Meierhenrich Uwe |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, : Springer, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
572.65
576.83 |
| Collana | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Exobiology
Life - Origin Asymmetry (Chemistry) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-86226-6
9786611862268 3-540-76886-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Tracing Life’s Origin: From Amino Acids to Space Mission ROSETTA -- Stereochemistry for the Study of the Origin of Life -- Minority Report: Life’s Chiral Molecules of Opposite Handedness -- When Crystals Deliver Chirality to Life -- When Parity Falls: The Weak Nuclear Interaction -- Chiral Fields: Light, Magnetism, and Chirality -- Key to the Prebiotic Origin of Amino Acids -- A New Record for Chiral Molecules in Meteorites -- The New Space Race: Chiral Molecules on Comets and on Mars -- Accelerating the Carousel: Amplification Mechanisms. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451495403321 |
Meierhenrich Uwe
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| Berlin, : Springer, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Amino acids and the asymmetry of life [[electronic resource] ] : caught in the act of formation / / Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan
| Amino acids and the asymmetry of life [[electronic resource] ] : caught in the act of formation / / Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan |
| Autore | Meierhenrich Uwe |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, : Springer, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina |
572.65
576.83 |
| Collana | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics |
| Soggetto topico |
Exobiology
Life - Origin Asymmetry (Chemistry) |
| ISBN |
1-281-86226-6
9786611862268 3-540-76886-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Tracing Life’s Origin: From Amino Acids to Space Mission ROSETTA -- Stereochemistry for the Study of the Origin of Life -- Minority Report: Life’s Chiral Molecules of Opposite Handedness -- When Crystals Deliver Chirality to Life -- When Parity Falls: The Weak Nuclear Interaction -- Chiral Fields: Light, Magnetism, and Chirality -- Key to the Prebiotic Origin of Amino Acids -- A New Record for Chiral Molecules in Meteorites -- The New Space Race: Chiral Molecules on Comets and on Mars -- Accelerating the Carousel: Amplification Mechanisms. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782092303321 |
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Meierhenrich Uwe
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| Berlin, : Springer, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comets and their origin : the tools to decipher a comet / / Uwe Meierhenrich
| Comets and their origin : the tools to decipher a comet / / Uwe Meierhenrich |
| Autore | Meierhenrich Uwe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.6 |
| Soggetto topico | Comets |
| ISBN |
3-527-41278-6
3-527-41279-4 3-527-41277-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Related Titles; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword by Michael F. A'Hearn; Foreword by Gerhard H. Schwehm; Preface; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Part I: Comets and their Origin; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Preliminary Remarks; 1.2 Motivation to Land a Probe on a Cometary Nucleus; 1.3 Introduction to the Physical Characteristics of Comets; 1.4 Space Probes Vega, Sakigake, and Suisei: Observations of Comet 1P/Halley; 1.5 The Giotto Spacecraft and the First Image of a Cometary Nucleus; 1.6 Comet 19P/Borrelly as Observed by Deep Space 1 and the Contour Comet Nucleus Tour
1.7 The Stardust Sample Return Mission to Comet 81P/Wild1.8 The Deep Impact Mission's Excavation of Comet 9P/Tempel 1; References; Chapter 2: The Formation of Comets; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Whipple's Dirty Snowball Model of Cometary Nuclei; 2.3 Formation and Collection of Interplanetary Dust Particles or Brownlee Particles; 2.4 The Greenberg Core-Mantle Grain Model; 2.5 Remote Photometric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Comets; References; Chapter 3: Astrochemistry: Water and Organic Molecules in Comets; 3.1 Water in Cometary Ices 3.2 Artificial Comets: Organic Molecules Identified in Simulated Interstellar Ices3.3 Amino Acids in Simulated Interstellar Ices; 3.4 The Intended Detection of Organic Molecules in a Cometary Nucleus; 3.5 The Behavior of Organic Molecules During Cometary Impact; 3.6 The Origin of Life on Earth; References; Chapter 4: The Asymmetry of Life; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Photochemical Formation of Chiral Organic Molecules; 4.3 Enantiomeric Excesses in Meteoritic Molecules; 4.4 Symmetry Breaking by the Weak Nuclear Interaction 4.5 Enantioselective Instruments on the Mars Science Laboratory and ExoMarsReferences; Part II: The Rosetta Mission-Rendezvous with a Comet; Chapter 5: The Rosetta Cometary Mission: Launch and Target Comet; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Launch Countdown in 2002 and the Targeting of Comet 46P/Wirtanen; 5.3 The Successful Rosetta Launch with an Ariane 5G+ Rocket in 2004; 5.4 Characterization of Target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; References; Chapter 6: On the Way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; 6.1 Accelerating the Rosetta Probe Using Swing-by Maneuvers Around Mars and Earth 6.2 Rosetta's Observation of Comet 9P/Tempel during the Deep Impact Event in 20056.3 Rosetta Spacecraft Mistaken as a Near-Earth Asteroid; 6.4 Rosetta's Asteroid Flybys: Šteins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010; 6.5 Rosetta Operations Prior to the Cometary Rendezvous; References; Chapter 7: Rosetta's Rendezvous with the Comet; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Rosetta in an Artificial Orbit Around the Comet; 7.3 Soft-landing on the Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Rosetta's Landing Unit Philae; 7.4 First Photos to be Taken on a Cometary Nucleus; 7.5 The First Science Sequence on a Cometary Nucleus 7.6 The Long-Term Science Sequence Approaching the Sun Piggyback on a Comet |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132321703321 |
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Meierhenrich Uwe
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| Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comets and their origin : the tools to decipher a comet / / Uwe Meierhenrich
| Comets and their origin : the tools to decipher a comet / / Uwe Meierhenrich |
| Autore | Meierhenrich Uwe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.6 |
| Soggetto topico | Comets |
| ISBN |
3-527-41278-6
3-527-41279-4 3-527-41277-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Related Titles; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword by Michael F. A'Hearn; Foreword by Gerhard H. Schwehm; Preface; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Part I: Comets and their Origin; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Preliminary Remarks; 1.2 Motivation to Land a Probe on a Cometary Nucleus; 1.3 Introduction to the Physical Characteristics of Comets; 1.4 Space Probes Vega, Sakigake, and Suisei: Observations of Comet 1P/Halley; 1.5 The Giotto Spacecraft and the First Image of a Cometary Nucleus; 1.6 Comet 19P/Borrelly as Observed by Deep Space 1 and the Contour Comet Nucleus Tour
1.7 The Stardust Sample Return Mission to Comet 81P/Wild1.8 The Deep Impact Mission's Excavation of Comet 9P/Tempel 1; References; Chapter 2: The Formation of Comets; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Whipple's Dirty Snowball Model of Cometary Nuclei; 2.3 Formation and Collection of Interplanetary Dust Particles or Brownlee Particles; 2.4 The Greenberg Core-Mantle Grain Model; 2.5 Remote Photometric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Comets; References; Chapter 3: Astrochemistry: Water and Organic Molecules in Comets; 3.1 Water in Cometary Ices 3.2 Artificial Comets: Organic Molecules Identified in Simulated Interstellar Ices3.3 Amino Acids in Simulated Interstellar Ices; 3.4 The Intended Detection of Organic Molecules in a Cometary Nucleus; 3.5 The Behavior of Organic Molecules During Cometary Impact; 3.6 The Origin of Life on Earth; References; Chapter 4: The Asymmetry of Life; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Photochemical Formation of Chiral Organic Molecules; 4.3 Enantiomeric Excesses in Meteoritic Molecules; 4.4 Symmetry Breaking by the Weak Nuclear Interaction 4.5 Enantioselective Instruments on the Mars Science Laboratory and ExoMarsReferences; Part II: The Rosetta Mission-Rendezvous with a Comet; Chapter 5: The Rosetta Cometary Mission: Launch and Target Comet; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Launch Countdown in 2002 and the Targeting of Comet 46P/Wirtanen; 5.3 The Successful Rosetta Launch with an Ariane 5G+ Rocket in 2004; 5.4 Characterization of Target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; References; Chapter 6: On the Way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; 6.1 Accelerating the Rosetta Probe Using Swing-by Maneuvers Around Mars and Earth 6.2 Rosetta's Observation of Comet 9P/Tempel during the Deep Impact Event in 20056.3 Rosetta Spacecraft Mistaken as a Near-Earth Asteroid; 6.4 Rosetta's Asteroid Flybys: Šteins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010; 6.5 Rosetta Operations Prior to the Cometary Rendezvous; References; Chapter 7: Rosetta's Rendezvous with the Comet; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Rosetta in an Artificial Orbit Around the Comet; 7.3 Soft-landing on the Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Rosetta's Landing Unit Philae; 7.4 First Photos to be Taken on a Cometary Nucleus; 7.5 The First Science Sequence on a Cometary Nucleus 7.6 The Long-Term Science Sequence Approaching the Sun Piggyback on a Comet |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823857303321 |
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Meierhenrich Uwe
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| Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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