meteorites

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    Building Blocks of Life: Meteorites transported Water and Organic Compounds to Earth

    Organic matter in extraterrestrial water-bearing salt crystals AbstractDirect evidence of complex prebiotic chemistry from a water-rich world in the outer solar system is provided by the 4.5-billion-year-old halite crystals hosted in the Zag and Monahans (1998) meteorites. This study offers the...
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    Meteorites Were the Origin of All Things Iron Predating the Iron Age

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440317301322?via%3Dihub Abstract Bronze Age iron artifacts could be derived from either meteoritic (extraterrestrial) or smelted (terrestrial) iron. This unresolved question is the subject of a controversy: are some, all or none made of...
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