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Blue halite and tweezer tips for scale. Credit: Dr. Queenie Hoi Shan Chan

Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth

January 14, 2018 by Comments are Disabled

January 10, 2018, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 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 for life. They are the first meteorites found to contain both liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds such as hydrocarbons […]

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Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or asteroid, Nasa scientist warns

Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or asteroid, Nasa scientist warns

December 13, 2016 by Comments are Disabled

Via The Guardian: December 13, 2016, 8:06 am Large and potentially dangerous asteroids and comets are extremely rare, scientists said – ‘But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events.’ A rocket in storage and ready to launch within a year ‘could mitigate the possibility of a sneaky asteroid coming in from a place that’s hard to observe, like […]

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