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Acasta gneiss
accretion disks
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Agena module
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Air Force, U.S.
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Akhenaton
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Aldrin, Buzz
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Alfvén, Hannes
algaen
blue-green, see cyanobacteria
ALH84001
alien abductions
Alien Autopsy
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Allamandola, Louis J.
Allen, Paul G.
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Alschuler, William
aluminum
Alvarez, Luis
Alvarez, Walter
Alvin, 33
American Astronomical Society
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Ames Research Center
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ammonia
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anaerobic microbes
Anders, Edward
Andromeda
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see also specific planets
atomism
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Australia
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see also prebiotic chemistry
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chemosynthetic
cyanobacteria
delivered by comets
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Bacteria subtilis
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour Declaration
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Gaia hypothesis and
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see also prebiotic chemistry
chemistry
organic
see also prebiotic chemistry
chemosynthetic bacteria
Chicago, University of
Childhood's End (Clarke)
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Christensen, Phil
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Clarke, Arthur C.
Claus, George
clays, prebiotic chemistry in
Clementine
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on Earth
on Mars
CNES (French space agency)
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) spacecraft
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Earth struck by
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future missions to
ice water in
major region for
organic materials in
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Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann-3
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Comet Tempel 1
Comet Wild 2
Comet Wirtanen
Condon, Edward
Congress, U.S.
Pluto mission and
SETI and
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Conrad, Pete
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contamination
Cooper, George
Copernicus, Nicholas
Corot satellite
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Cosmos
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see also specific planets
creationists
creation of life
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duplication of first steps in
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and
prebiotic chemistry and
spontaneous generation and
Crookes, Sir William
cryptoendoliths
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Cyclops program
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Darwin, Charles
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Deamer, David W.
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Deep Impact
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Deep Space Network
Defense Department, U.S.
Deinococcus radiodurans
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Doppler effect
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Drake, Frank
"alien" message of
Drake equation
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Dyson, Freeman
Dyson spheres
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climate of
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extremophiles on
fate of
God as creator of
gravity of
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intelligent life on
