Grains of snow-buried stardust illuminate solar system’s past
MAY 11, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024320
New York Times : Jean Duprat of the University of Paris and his colleagues have retrieved micrometeorites from deep in the Antarctic snow and analyzed their composition . The micrometeorites’ mix of isotopes and molecules suggests that the solar system’s supply of organics didn’t require seeding from interstellar comets or other external objects.
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