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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 243-250Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.03.004
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- NASA Exobiology, Astrobiology, and Evolutionary Biology [NNA04CI35A, NNX08AO15G]
- NASA Planetary Protection office [NNA05CS68G, NNA06CB58G]
- NASA Graduate Student Research Program [NNX07AO60H]
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Recent developments in microbiology, geophysics and planetary sciences raise the possibility that the planets in our solar system might not be biologically isolated. Hence, the possibility of lithopanspermia (the interplanetary transport of microbial passengers inside rocks) is presently being re-evaluated, with implications for the origin and evolution of life on Earth and within our solar system. Here, I summarize our current understanding of the physics of impacts, space transport of meteorites, and the potentiality of microorganisms to undergo and survive interplanetary transfer.
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