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Friday, August 11, 2017

Meteorites might explain how life on Earth started

On a clear night scores of meteors streak the sky as the Earth is showered with stardust memories of its own creation. These cosmological leftovers, known as meteorites*, range in size from many tons to microscopic grains. They contain material unchanged since the birth of the planets-and perhaps clues to the beginning of life. Says Martin Prinz, a geologist at New York's American Museum of Natural History: "Meteorites are the Rosetta stones of the origin of the solar system."
Meteorites might explain how life on Earth started

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