University of Hawaii Manoa: Micrometeorites May Have Delivered Building Blocks for Life on Earth
December 05, 2023
December 05, 2023
MANOA, Hawaii, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release:
Micrometeorites (small particles of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram) originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system. That discovery, based on material gathered from an asteroid, was published on November 30 in Nature Astronomy by an inter . . .
Micrometeorites (small particles of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram) originating from icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system may be responsible for transporting nitrogen to the near-Earth region in the early days of our solar system. That discovery, based on material gathered from an asteroid, was published on November 30 in Nature Astronomy by an inter . . .