Possible Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems
Recently, a 30-cm object was discovered to graze the Earth’s atmosphere and shift into a Jupiter-crossing orbit. We use the related survey parameters to calibrate the total number of such objects. The number of objects that could have exported terrestrial microbes out of the Solar System is in the r...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Life |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/4/44 |