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Meteorites: Tool kits for creating life on Earth
February 6, 2012 | Carnegie Institution for Science

Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.” Quoted from the Carnegie Institution for Science press release.


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