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Amino acid in the comets

2009-08-19 05:18:38.698748+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

NASA finds Amino acid glycine in comet trail.

“We discovered that the Stardust-returned glycine has an extraterrestrial carbon isotope signature, indicating that it originated on the comet,” said Dr Elsila.

via MeFi (on the iPhone, explaining stunted English and minimal links)

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