Open AccessInterstellar Visitors Could Export Terrestrial Life to Other Stars
Author(s) -
Nola Redd
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo138856
Subject(s) - stars , astrobiology , astronomy , physics
A handful of interstellar objects and long-period comets could have scooped up microorganisms from Earth and carried them to worlds around other stars.