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Precursors To Life Found On Both An Asteroid And A Comet – IFLScience

Vital ingredients for the presence of life have been independently identified on both an asteroid and a comet. The findings don’t necessarily build the cas

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Vital ingredients for the presence of life have been independently identified on both an asteroid and a comet. The findings dont necessarily build the case for panspermia  the idea life on Earth was seeded from space  but they do suggest there may have been major contributions of key ingredients from beyond our atmosphere. 
The first claim rests on a single grain of the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, brought back to Earth by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa mission in 2010. The…

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