• Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life.- The Origin of the Atmosphere and of the Oceans.- Cometary Micrometeorites in Planetology, Exobiology, and Early Climatology.- Macromolecules: From Star-Forming Regions to Comets to the Origins of Life.- Impact Delivery of Prebiotic Organic Matter to Planetary Surfaces.- Comets and Prebiotic Organic Molecules on Early Earth.- Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life.- Extraterrestrial Impact Episodes and Archaean to Early Proterozoic (3.8–2.4 Ga) Habitats of Life.- The Contemporary Hazard of Comet Impacts.- The Conditions for Liquid Water in Cometary Nuclei.- Spacecraft Missions to Comets.- Interstellar and Cometary Dust in Relation to the Origin of Life.

Aus den Rezensionen zur 2. Auflage: "... das aktuellste und wichtigste Buch zu diesem Thema ... Die Buchbeitrage geben einen Einblick in die neuen Erkenntnisse uber Kometen ... und beschreiben die kometaren Einwirkungen auf Atmosphare und Ozeane ... Das exzellente Buch ..." (in: The Science Fiction Jahr 2008, 2008, S. 790 f.)

• Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life.- The Origin of the Atmosphere and of the Oceans.- Cometary Micrometeorites in Planetology, Exobiology, and Early Climatology.- Macromolecules: From Star-Forming Regions to Comets to the Origins of Life.- Impact Delivery of Prebiotic Organic Matter to Planetary Surfaces.- Comets and Prebiotic Organic Molecules on Early Earth.- Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life.- Extraterrestrial Impact Episodes and Archaean to Early Proterozoic (3.8–2.4 Ga) Habitats of Life.- The Contemporary Hazard of Comet Impacts.- The Conditions for Liquid Water in Cometary Nuclei.- Spacecraft Missions to Comets.- Interstellar and Cometary Dust in Relation to the Origin of Life.

Aus den Rezensionen zur 2. Auflage: "... das aktuellste und wichtigste Buch zu diesem Thema ... Die Buchbeitrage geben einen Einblick in die neuen Erkenntnisse uber Kometen ... und beschreiben die kometaren Einwirkungen auf Atmosphare und Ozeane ... Das exzellente Buch ..." (in: The Science Fiction Jahr 2008, 2008, S. 790 f.)

• Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life.- The Origin of the Atmosphere and of the Oceans.- Cometary Micrometeorites in Planetology, Exobiology, and Early Climatology.- Macromolecules: From Star-Forming Regions to Comets to the Origins of Life.- Impact Delivery of Prebiotic Organic Matter to Planetary Surfaces.- Comets and Prebiotic Organic Molecules on Early Earth.- Impacts and the Early Evolution of Life.- Extraterrestrial Impact Episodes and Archaean to Early Proterozoic (3.8–2.4 Ga) Habitats of Life.- The Contemporary Hazard of Comet Impacts.- The Conditions for Liquid Water in Cometary Nuclei.- Spacecraft Missions to Comets.- Interstellar and Cometary Dust in Relation to the Origin of Life.

Aus den Rezensionen zur 2. Auflage: "... das aktuellste und wichtigste Buch zu diesem Thema ... Die Buchbeitrage geben einen Einblick in die neuen Erkenntnisse uber Kometen ... und beschreiben die kometaren Einwirkungen auf Atmosphare und Ozeane ... Das exzellente Buch ..." (in: The Science Fiction Jahr 2008, 2008, S. 790 f.)