December 16, 2010
an alternate method of creating amino acids in space
Scientists found amino acids on a meteorite where they were surprised they had been able to survive.
“This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided,” said Daniel Glavin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “The shock of the collision heated it to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough that all complex organic molecules like amino acids should have been destroyed, but we found them anyway.”
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