[meteorite-list] Antarctic meteorite might explain mystery of life's weird asymmetry

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:51:32 -0500
Message-ID: <a25af741-21bc-fdbe-2562-e38935792ed6_at_att.net>

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-scientistspeek-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.
Received on Sun 23 Aug 2020 11:51:32 AM PDT