Primeval procreative comet pond
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 18 (3) , 209-238
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01804671
Abstract
It is speculated that life originated in a small, shallow body of water containing concentrated prebiotic organic feedstocks, inorganic compounds, and catalytic agents in a diversity of microenvironments. This pond was formed by an improbable, fortuitous soft-landing of a cometary nucleus, or fragment thereof, on the surface of a suitable planet with an atmosphere in an appropriate thermodynamic state, such as Earth.Keywords
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