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lithopanspermia
lithopanspermia
English
Noun
lithopanspermia (uncountable)
- The transfer of life-bearing rocks, ejected from one planet, onto the surface of another
- 2015 July 8, “Spore-Forming Thermophilic Bacterium within Artificial Meteorite Survives Entry into the Earth's Atmosphere on FOTON-M4 Satellite Landing Module”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- This experimental evidence supports the possibility of interplanetary transport of lifeforms and makes the lithopanspermia hypothesis more realistic.
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