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Interplanetary Dust Particles are amongst the most pristine materials of the Solar System that can be studied here on Earth. The study of these primitive particles gives a lot of information about the evolution of our Solar system and about the delivery of (pre-)biotic material on Earth. Although the sample size of IDPs is small, typically 10−9 gram, this does not prevent the study of them and several techniques are available. At the moment the possibilities for detailed astrobiology research are limited. But with the present day evolution of the different instruments, the time for detailed astrobiology research of interplanetary dust particles is near.
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Molster, F. (2004). Interplanetary Dust Particles and Astrobiology. In: Ehrenfreund, P., et al. Astrobiology: Future Perspectives. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 305. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2305-7_10
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