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Uwe J. Meierhenrich
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 164
Citations - 5794
Uwe J. Meierhenrich is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Homochirality & Interstellar ice. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 152 publications receiving 5010 citations. Previous affiliations of Uwe J. Meierhenrich include University of Bremen & Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
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Amino acids from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogues.
G. M. Muñoz Caro,Uwe J. Meierhenrich,W. A. Schutte,Bernard Barbier,A. Arcones Segovia,H. Rosenbauer,Wolfram Thiemann,A. Brack,J.M. Greenberg +8 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the spontaneous generation of amino acids in the interstellar medium is possible, supporting the suggestion that prebiotic molecules could have been delivered to the early Earth by cometary dust, meteorites or interplanetary dust particles.
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Organic compounds on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko revealed by COSAC mass spectrometry
Fred Goesmann,H. Rosenbauer,Jan Hendrik Bredehöft,Michel Cabane,Pascale Ehrenfreund,Thomas Gautier,Chaitanya Giri,Chaitanya Giri,Harald Krüger,Léna Le Roy,A. J. MacDermott,Susan McKenna-Lawlor,Uwe J. Meierhenrich,Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro,François Raulin,Reinhard Roll,Andrew Steele,Harald Steininger,Robert Sternberg,Cyril Szopa,Wolfram Thiemann,Stephan Ulamec +21 more
TL;DR: The evolved gas analyzer Cometary Sampling and Composition experiment aboard Rosetta’s Philae lander was designed for in situ analysis of organic molecules on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and displayed a suite of 16 organic compounds that had not previously been reported in comets.
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Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover
Jorge L. Vago,Frances Westall,Andrew J. Coates,Ralf Jaumann,Oleg Korablev,Valérie Ciarletti,I. G. Mitrofanov,Jean-Luc Josset,Maria Cristina De Sanctis,Jean-Pierre Bibring,F. Rull,Fred Goesmann,Harald Steininger,Walter Goetz,William B. Brinckerhoff,Cyril Szopa,François Raulin,Howell G. M. Edwards,Lyle G. Whyte,Alberto G. Fairén,John Bridges,Ernst Hauber,Gian Gabriele Ori,Stephanie C. Werner,Damien Loizeau,Ruslan O. Kuzmin,Rebecca M. E. Williams,Jessica Flahaut,François Forget,Daniel Rodionov,Håkan Svedhem,Elliot Sefton-Nash,Gerhard Kminek,L. Lorenzoni,Luc Joudrier,Viktor Mikhailov,Alexander Zashchirinskiy,Sergei Alexashkin,Fabio Calantropio,Andrea Merlo,Pantelis Poulakis,Olivier Witasse,Olivier Bayle,Silvia Bayón,Uwe J. Meierhenrich,John Carter,Juan Manuel García-Ruiz,Pietro Baglioni,A. F. C. Haldemann,Andrew J. Ball,André Debus,Robert Lindner,Frédéric Haessig,David Monteiro,Roland Trautner,Christoph Voland,Pierre Rebeyre,Duncan Goulty,F. Didot,Stephen Durrant,Eric Zekri,Detlef Koschny,Andrea Toni,Gianfranco Visentin,Martin Zwick,Michel van Winnendael,Martin Azkarate,Christophe Carreau +67 more
TL;DR: The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics).
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Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the role of chirality in the origin of life on Earth is presented. But the authors focus on the left-handedness of amino acid enantiomers.
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Ribose and related sugars from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogs
Cornelia Meinert,Iuliia Myrgorodska,Pierre de Marcellus,Thomas Buhse,Laurent Nahon,Søren Vrønning Hoffmann,Louis Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt,Uwe J. Meierhenrich +7 more
TL;DR: The detection of ribose provides plausible insights into the chemical processes that could lead to formation of biologically relevant molecules in suitable planetary environments and suggests that the generation of numerous sugar molecules, including the aldopentose ribose, may be possible from photochemical and thermal treatment of cosmic ices in the late stages of the solar nebula.