Can Antarctic meteorite explain the mystery of life's weird asymmetry

[Oxytropidoceras]

Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could

explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry

By Meghan Bartels, SpaceCom, August 21, 2020

https://www.space.com/pristine-antarctic-meteorite-amino-acid-chirality.html

 

Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists

Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks

By Lonnie Shekhtman, NASA’s Goddard Space

Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., August 21, 2020

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/pristine-space-rock-offers-nasa-scientists-peek-at-evolution-of-life-s-building-blocks

 

The paper is:

 

Daniel P. Glavin Hannah L. McLain Jason P.

Dworkin Eric T. Parker and others, 2020

Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the

primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka

12236 First published: 20 August 2020

https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13560

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13560

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.