Comet Halley and interstellar chemistry
Description
How complex is the chemistry of the interstellar medium? How far does it evolve and how has it interacted with the chemistry of the solar system? Are the galactic chemical processes destroyed, preserved, or even enhanced in comets? Are biogenic molecules formed in space and have the formation mechanisms interacted in any way with prebiotic organic chemical processes on the early earth? Radio molecular studies of comets are important for probing deep into the coma and nuclear region and thus may help answer these questions. Comets are believed to be pristine samples of the debris left from the formation of the solar system and may have been the carrier between interstellar and terrestrial prebiotic chemistries. Recent observations of Comet Halley and subsequent comets have given the author an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between interstellar molecular chemistry and cometary chemistry
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society.
- Imprint Place
- Washington, DC (USA)
- Imprint Title
- The 1989 international chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies: Abstracts of papers, Parts I and II
- Imprint Pagination
- 1700 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1271, Paper PHYS 399.
Conference
- Title
- International chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM '89).
- Dates
- 17-22 Dec 1989.
- Place
- Honolulu, HI (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22032852
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOCHEMISTRY; HALLEY COMET; INTERSTELLAR SPACE; MOLECULES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOASTRONOMY; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR SYSTEM EVOLUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; COMETS; SPACE
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-891206--.