Search for our cosmic ancestry / (Record no. 24589)
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| fixed length control field | 01103nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 160510b2015 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789814616973 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 576.839 WIC-C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wickramasinghe, Chandra |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Search for our cosmic ancestry / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Chandra Wickramasinghe |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | World Scientific |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 196 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | USD |
| Price amount | 38.00 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years, |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Extraterrestrial beings |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Exobiology |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Life on other planets |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 570 | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | General Stack (For lending) | 10/05/2016 | 2 | 576.839 WIC-C | 28962 | 13/07/2024 | 12/09/2018 | Books |