From Imperial College in London, England, the news are that an important component of early genetic material, which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-6-2008-14-44-59?newsid=38534

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Split personality - who, us?

From Imperial College in London, England, the news are that an important component of early genetic material, which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-6-2008-14-44-59?newsid=38534

Then maybe Arrhenius, Hoyle and Narlikar were right. Life comes from space.
Tullio

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Thanks for sharing John.

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Interesting. This goes along with the fossil record which shows that life started on Earth almost the instant that it was possible --About 4 Billion years ago.

Thanks John!

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

From Imperial College in London, England, the news are that an important component of early genetic material, which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-6-2008-14-44-59?newsid=38534

Then maybe Arrhenius, Hoyle and Narlikar were right. Life comes from space.
Tullio

But we have known for years that there are complex molecules in interstellar gas-, dust- and molecular clouds, even including NH3, CH4, CH3OH and H2O.

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(Quoting myself earlier today): But we have known for years that there are complex molecules in interstellar gas-, dust- and molecular clouds, even including NH3, CH4, CH3OH and H2O.

Today it was reported by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, that an even more complex molecule has been found.

The molecule in question is NH2CH2CN

The report will appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics in a few days.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid:
amino acetonitrile near the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

Detection of amino acetonitrile in Sgr B2(N)
A. Belloche, K. M. Menten, C. Comito, H. S. P. Müller, P. Schilke, J. Ott, S. Thorwirth, C. Hieret
Astronomy & Astrophysics (in press), [DOI 10.1051/0004-6361: 20079203]

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2008/pressRelease20080325/index.html

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