2003 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.1 Reports Reporting | JUL 2002 – JUN 2003
Roadmap Objective 3.1—Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
Project Reports
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Chemical Building Blocks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2 -
Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2 -
Archean Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.4 4.1 -
Benner – Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2 -
Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites
The mechanisms that produced chondrules and CAIs were important, energetic processes in the early Solar System that would also have led to complex gas-phase chemistry.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 -
Biogeochemistry of Earth’s Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2 -
Delivery of Organics to Earth and Earthlike Planets – Brownlee and Kress
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 -
Delivery of Organic Materials to Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 7.2 -
New Technique Development and Application
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 3.1 4.1 -
Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis
Over the past year Cody and colleagues have continued their research into hydrothermal protometabolic chemistry.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 4.2 -
Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1 -
Organic Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 3.1 -
Organic Synthesis at High Temperature
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 6.1 -
A New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 3.1 3.2 4.1 5.1 6.2 7.1 -
Environment of Prebiotic Earth and the Origin of Life: Experimental Approach – Schoonen
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 -
Magnetic Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.3 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 6.1 7.1 -
Cosmochemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 7.1 -
Studies of Hydrogen Cyanide Chemistry
The role of hydrogen cyanide polymer chemistry in the origin of life has provoked much speculation
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2