Meteorites as catalysts for prebiotic chemistry

R Saladino, G Botta, M Delfino…

Index: Saladino, Raffaele; Botta, Giorgia; Delfino, Michela; Di Mauro, Ernesto Chemistry - A European Journal, 2013 , vol. 19, # 50 p. 16916 - 16922

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Abstract

Meteorite late heavy bombardment [1] was a major event after the accretion of the earth. The relevance of organic syntheses driven by impact shocks was first proposed by Chyba and Sagan in 1992,[2] based on the scanty indications available at the time. How would the contribution by meteorites to an early earth organic pool compare with the syntheses these meteorites might have induced after their impact?[2]