panspermia hypothesis

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf scientific theory
gptkbp:category origin of life theories
gptkbp:contrastsWith abiogenesis
gptkbp:evidence controversial
not widely accepted
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label panspermia hypothesis
gptkbp:influencedBy comet research
meteorite studies
discovery of organic molecules in space
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Fred_Hoyle
gptkb:Svante_Arrhenius
gptkb:Chandra_Wickramasinghe
gptkbp:proposedBy 19th century
life exists throughout the Universe
life can be distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids
life originated elsewhere in the Universe
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:ballistic_panspermia
gptkb:lithopanspermia
gptkb:radiopanspermia
exogenesis
gptkbp:studiedIn astrobiology
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Life_on_Mars
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5