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Hoyle, F. and Wickramasinghe, C. (1981) Comets—A Vehicle for Panspermia. In: Ponnamperuma, C., Ed., Comets and the Origin of Life, Springer, 227-239.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8528-5_15

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• TITLE: Comet 3I/Atlas and Our Links with the Wider Cosmos

  AUTHORS: Chandra Wickramasinghe, Gensuke Tokoro, Max K. Wallis

  KEYWORDS: Comets, Hyperbolic Comets, Panspermia, Evolution

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.15 No.4, November 27, 2025

  ABSTRACT: Comet 3I/Atlas shows all the signs of being a comet escaping from a distant planetary system, probably from above the disc of the galaxy, and traversing through the inner solar system. The emitted dust coma and tail could carry genetic material that may possibly soft-land through the terrestrial atmosphere and thus potentially contribute to the evolution of life on Earth and thence in the wider planetary system.