P44A:
Nature, Distribution, and Evolution of Organic Matter in the Solar System I

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Session ID#: 32321

Session Description:
Organic matter is critical for habitability of an extraterrestrial environment and the development of life. It is believed that life on Earth arose from a chemical complexification of simple organic molecules, yet many questions remain about the nature and origin of these building blocks for life. Understanding the chemical processes that occur in the varied environments of the solar system (e.g. Ocean Worlds, Mars, comets, meteorites), and investigating the nature, abundance and distribution of those molecules, give insights on the processes that occurred on primitive Earth. It also provides valuable information on the habitability and potential for life throughout the solar system. We invite contributions that include (1) remote or in situ observations of organic matter on planetary bodies, (2) field work, experimental and modeling studies that could predict organics distribution in planetary environments, and (3) promising locations, instrument concepts and strategies for investigating organic astrochemistry.
Primary Convener:  Caroline Freissinet, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
Conveners:  Cyril Szopa, Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, Richard C. Quinn, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States and Melissa G Trainer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Caroline Freissinet1, Cyril Szopa1, Melissa G Trainer2 and Richard C. Quinn3, (1)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States(3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Melissa G Trainer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Index Terms:

5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
6099 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Organic Minerals in the Origin of Life (Invited) (280178)
Steven Benner, Firebird Biomolecular Sciences, LLC, Alachua, United States, Elisa Biondi, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Alachua, United States and Hyo-Joong Kim, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, FL, United States
Survival of Glycolaldehyde and Production of Sugar Compounds via Comet Impact Delivery (293000)
Nicolle Zellner1, Vanessa McCaffrey2, Claudia Crake2, Jayden Butler3,4, Jami Robbins2 and Antoniu Fodor4, (1)Albion College, Physics, Albion, United States, (2)Albion College, Chemistry, Albion, MI, United States, (3)California State University - Los Angeles, Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Albion College, Physics, Albion, MI, United States
Production of Prebiotic Molecule Precursors from Hypervelocity Impact Simulation Experiments on Carbonate Sediments (273628)
Benjamin Jacob Farcy1,2, Andrej Grubisic1, Xiang Li3, Veronica T. Pinnick1, Mark Sutton4, Alexander Pavlov1 and William B Brinckerhoff5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geology, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, United States, (5)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The MarsOrganiX experiment: Understanding the influence of the secondary X-Rays on the organic matter at Mars’ near-surface. (279833)
Arnaud Buch1,2, Cyril Szopa3, Caroline Freissinet4, Fabien Stalport5, David Coscia4, Alexander Pavlov6, jean-Yves Bonnet4, Pierre Gilbert4, Vincent Guerrini4 and Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez7, (1)LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry, France, (2)ecole centrale Paris, LGPM, Chatenay Malabry, France, (3)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (4)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (5)Université de Paris, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil Cedex, France, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Co-crystal formation between two organic solids on the surface of Titan (236864)
Morgan L Cable, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Tuan Hoang Vu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Helen Elizabeth Maynard-Casely, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, NSW, Australia and Robert P Hodyss, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Organics and Ocean Worlds (Invited) (283095)
Sarah M Horst, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States

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