Advances in Astrophysics

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DOI: 10.22606/adap.2020.54004

• Fred Hoyle
  Deceased, 2001
• Chandra Wickramasinghe^*
  University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK; Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka; National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

The beginnings of a theory of Venusian aerobiology were developed by us as early as 1982 and published in a monograph from which an extract is reproduced here. The reprinted form of this material with new annotations would be of use to modern investigators who are revisiting these ideas.

Venus, Venusian clouds, bacterial cycle

[1] 1. Coffeen, D.L. and Hansen, J.E., 1974. In Planets, Stars and Nebulae Studied with Photometry (ed R.Gehrels) University of Arizona Press

[2] 2. Knollenberg, R.G. and Hunten, D.M., 1979. Clouds of Venus: Particle Size Distribution Measurements, Science, 203, 792-795

[3] 3. Wickramasinghe, N.C., 1973. Light Scattering by Small Particles with Applications in Astronomy (Adam Hilger, London)

[4] 4. Wickramasinghe, N.C. and Wickramasinghe, J.T., 2008. On the possibility of microbiota transfer from Venus to Earth, Astrophys Space Sci, 317: 133–137