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From the interstellar clouds, through the inner to the outer solar system: a universally distributed complex organic
1LISA, CNRS and Universites, Paris, France.
Advances in Space Research : the Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
High molecular weight organic compounds are involved in the chemistry and physics of many astrophysical and planetary objects. They are or should be present in interstellar dust, in comets and meteorites, in the Giant planets and Titan, in asteroids Triton and icy satellites. They represent a class of very complex organic material, part of which may have played a role in the origin of life on Earth. Thus they directly concern prebiotic chemistry and exobiology.