An international study led by researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya has discovered that carbonaceous […]
Meteorites & Asteroids
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Impact Experiments on a Chondrite Meteorite
A study of the Northwest Africa 869 (NWA869) meteorite has provided new information about the physical characteristics of asteroids. NW869 refers to a collection of samples from an L chondrite […]
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Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system’s asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients […]
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A 4641Da Polymer of Amino Acids in Acfer 086 And Allende Meteorites
A specific 4641Da amino acid polymer entity is present in two CV3 meteorites Acfer 086 and Allende, together with its breakdown polymer fragments of mass < 2000Da. Previously in Allende […]
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Melting Pots for Life on Earth
Geochemists from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences may have found a solution to a long-debated problem as to where – and how – life first formed on Earth. […]
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Meteorite Impacts Can Create DNA Building Blocks
A new study shown that meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created nucleobases and amino acids. Researchers from Tohoku University, National Institute for Materials Science and Hiroshima University discovered […]
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Reactivity and Survivability of Glycolaldehyde in Simulated Meteorite Impact Experiments
Sugars of extraterrestrial origin have been observed in the interstellar medium (ISM), in at least one comet spectrum, and in several carbonaceous chondritic meteorites that have been recovered from the […]
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Amino Acids in Chondrites
Many theories about the origins of life involve the delivery of organic molecules to the early Earth by objects from space. Previously, scientists have identified amino acids in carbon-rich meteorites. […]
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Organic Matter in the Enstatite Chondrite Sahara 97096 (EH3)
The insoluble organic matter (IOM) of an unequilibrated enstatite chondrite Sahara (SAH) 97096 has been investigated using a battery of analytical techniques. As the enstatite chondrites are thought to have […]
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Tales from a Martian Rock
A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet’s climate billions of […]