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. 1996:72:469-74.
doi: 10.1007/BF00117551.

The delivery of organic matter from asteroids and comets to the early surface of Mars

G J Flynn  1
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The delivery of organic matter from asteroids and comets to the early surface of Mars

G J Flynn. Earth Moon Planets. 1996.

Abstract

Carbon delivered to the Earth by interplanetary dust particles may have been an important source of pre-biotic organic matter (Anders, 1989). Interplanetary dust is shown to deliver an order-of-magnitude higher surface concentration of carbon onto Mars than onto Earth, suggesting interplanetary dust may be an important source of carbon on Mars as well.

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