In the meteorites that fell to Earth, a source of life

Scientists from the Lawrence National Laboratory in Berkeley, USA, found water and complex chemical compounds in two meteorites. In the opinion of planetologists, the find indicates that the cosmic bodies falling on the planet could lead to the origin of life on Earth.

Researchers studied the chemical composition of rock salt crystals within meteorites that fell to Earth in 1998. X-ray photographs showed that inside the crystals there are inclusions of a salt-saturated aqueous solution and organic molecules. Including amino acids, their precursors, hydrocarbons and other compounds that play important biological roles on Earth.

“Blue crystals of salt two millimeters in size are a storehouse of organic compounds and elements that are necessary for the birth of life,” said one of the authors of the study Quini Chan, noting that this combination of elements on an extraterrestrial object was recorded for the first time in history.

According to scientists, molecules in meteorite crystals were synthesized under unclear conditions about 4.5 billion years ago. Presumably, the birthplace was the dwarf planet Ceres, located in the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

According to the authors of the study, their discovery demonstrates that primitive life could exist in other places of the solar system, and also move between planets on fragments of asteroids or planetoids.

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Ernest Vallejo

UH HUH.. DID YA KNOW THERES POSSIBLY DRONE S THAT LOOK LIKE METORITES..ETC PLUS INVENTED BY EVV121664.. ME SINCE 1998 1999 LINKED TO 1964.. HEADING FOR TERRORIST LISTED.. HEADS.. TO TALK SO TO SPEAK.. ABOUT THERE DNA HEADS.. LIKE A DNA TESTER.. THATS WHAT SOME SAY.. IN FUTURE PREDICTIONS OF MINE EVV121664 FOR WORLD WAR 2018 UP OF MINE EVV121664.. PER MY EVV121664 UFOS FLEETS MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS MILITARY MILKY WAY DISCOVERIES OF MINE EVV121664 AND SENT OUT TO MILKY WAY ETC COURT ORDERS OF MINE EVV121664.. SAY SO TOO.. SINCE 1950S AND SOME SAY SINCE BEFORE LIFE BEGAN.. DID YA SEE FLYING PIZZA.. S OUT THERE. MAYBE I ATE IT .. AND MY HAND HELPED ME. LIKE HANGS.. HELPED ME. EVV121664 WHAT OF IT..

qedlin

There is interesting science in finding chemicals embedded within meteorites, but it is intellectually insulting to suggest that this has any relevance to the origin of life. Small molecule abiotic compounds are very common through out the universe, suggesting because they exist then the origin of life is directly addressed is incoherent. There is no chemical evolution, it is a myth like Darwin’s “warm little ponds” and Oparin-Haldane primordial soup. There are no natural processes capable of origination of life.

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