Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Ancient Meteorites from Outer Solar System May Have Provided Raw Materials for Life


(Source: Scientific American) Meteorites rich in carbon and water fall to Earth once or twice every few decades. But when a truck-size meteorite crashed on frozen Tagish Lake in western Canada in 2000, researchers received a specimen speckled with stardust that promised to offer clues about the chemistry of our early solar system.

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